SAN DIEGO — A federal judge refused to dismiss a claim that the Palomar Community College District fired a woman for participating in a sexual harassment investigation against two professors, otherwise, “public employers could simply terminate employees with unlawful motives and then shield themselves with the anti-SLAPP statute.”
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