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STEPHANIE BRITTv.MEGAN ANDERSON YARBROUGH et al

CourtCourt of Appeals of Georgia
Docket No.A26A1234
DecidedSeptember 10, 2026
JudgesDoyle, P. J., Markle, and Padgett, JJ.
Tags
DefamationAnti-SLAPPPrivilegePleadingCivil Procedure
Case Summary

Cheerleading business owner Megan Anderson Yarbrough again invoked Georgia’s anti-SLAPP statute to strike Stephanie Britt’s defamation complaint over Yarbrough’s speech. On this third appeal, the Court of Appeals held that the challenged speech concerned a matter of public interest, satisfying the statute’s first step. But the trial court had not adequately decided the second step—whether Britt showed a probability of prevailing on her defamation claim, including how any privilege applied. The court affirmed the public-interest ruling, vacated the strike of the defamation claim, and remanded for that merits assessment.

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