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While the courthouse doors may remain open in the first instance to nonmeritorious lawsuits, the anti-SLAPP procedures allow a defendant to bring the matter to resolution through an early motion before much (if any) discovery is conducted. An amended pleading re-triggers the 60-day period. RCW 4.105.020(2). Thurman , 29 Wn.