9/11 – The California Court of Appeal reversed a decision by the trial court and ordered Dan Schneider’s defamation lawsuit over the documentary Quiet on Set dismissed under California’s anti-SLAPP statute. Schneider argued that the documentary and its trailer falsely implied, through editing and juxtaposition, that he had sexually abused children, even though neither expressly made that accusation. The appellate court held that, viewed in context and as a whole, neither the documentary nor the trailer was reasonably susceptible to that defamatory meaning because they distinguished allegations of Schneider’s workplace and other misconduct from child sexual abuse committed by specifically identified individuals. The court also held that social-media comments showing that some viewers drew the alleged inference did not create a factual issue because whether a publication is reasonably capable of a defamatory meaning is an objective legal question for the court.