Summary
holding that, in a malicious prosecution case, a professor of sociology testifying as an expert on "the motivations behind, and effects of, the phenomenon of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP suits)" could base his expert opinion on "inadmissible hearsay contained in newspaper articles" because the defendant did not show that "newspaper articles are not the type of evidence on which experts in [the expert's] field reasonably rely in forming their opinions"
Summary of this case from Simpson v. Socialist People's Libyan JamahiriyaOpinion
1991.
[EDITORS' NOTE: PAGES 1350 — 1368 CONTAINING MONIA v. PARNAS CORP. HAVE BEEN OMITTED.]
Deleted on direction of Supreme Court by order dated June 20, 1991.