Gregory Blatt v. Rosette Pambakian

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS SEP 24 2021

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

GREGORY BLATT, No. 20-55084

Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 2:19-cv-07046-MWF-FFM v.

ROSETTE PAMBAKIAN; SEAN RAD, MEMORANDUM*

Defendants-Appellants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Michael W. Fitzgerald, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted August 12, 2021 San Francisco, California

Before: SILER,** CHRISTEN, and FORREST, Circuit Judges.

Defendants-Appellants Rosette Pambakian and Sean Rad appeal from the

district court’s order that granted in part and denied in part their anti-SLAPP

motions. In August 2019, Plaintiff-Appellee Gregory Blatt sued Pambakian and Rad

for defamation based on their comments to the media regarding an unrelated lawsuit,

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The Honorable Eugene E. Siler, United States Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for…