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Wash. Rev. Code § 4.105.901 (2026)

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This chapter must be broadly construed and applied to protect the exercise of the right of freedom of speech and of the press, the right to assemble and petition, and the right of association, guaranteed by the United States Constitution or the Washington state Constitution.
[ 2021 c 259 s 11.]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases (6 in the last 5 years), 2022–2025 · leading case: Thurman v. Cowles Co., 562 P.3d 777 (Wash. 2025).
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Thurman v. Cowles Co., 562 P.3d 777 (Wash. 2025). “The second disjunctive phrase does not apply to Thurman’s defamation claim because he had asserted it in his June 14, 2021 complaint, before July 25, 2021, and amended those assertions in his December 3, 2021 amended complaint.”
Jeffrey Thurman v. Cowles Co. (Wash. Ct. App. 2024). · cites it 3× “See RCW 4.105.901. The Act creates a special procedure to quickly resolve cases that target the “[e]xercise of the right of freedom of speech or of the press, the right to assemble or petition, or the right of association, 2 RCW 4.”
Kurt Benshoof, V. Nathan Cliber (Wash. Ct. App. 2024). “See RCW 4.105.901. The Act creates a special procedure to resolve cases that target “[c]ommunication in a legislative, executive, judicial, administrative, or other governmental proceeding.”
Proj. Veritas v. Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (W.D. Wash. 2022). “” RCW 4.105.901. The statute provides that no 10 later than sixty days after a party is served with a complaint that asserts a cause of action 11 to which UPEPA applies, a party may file a special motion for expedited relief to dismiss 12 the cause of action or part of the cause…”
Al-Bustani v. Alger (W.D. Wash. 2022). “” RCW 4.105.901. 14 It “provides that no later than sixty days after a party is served with a complaint that 15 asserts a cause of action to which UPEPA applies, a party may file a special motion for 16 expedited relief to dismiss the cause of action or part of the cause of…”
Micahn T. Carter v. Mary E. Jones (Wash. Ct. App. 2025). “” RCW 4.105.901. We review a trial court’s denial of a UPEPA motion de novo.”
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