Law360 (August 27, 2019, 4:02 PM EDT) -- On August 23, lawyers and litigants finally got an answer to a question that has brewed for several years in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit: Does the Texas Citizens Participation Act, Texas’s anti-SLAPP statute, apply in federal diversity actions? Enacted in 2011, the Texas Citizens Participation Act, or TCPA, provides litigants protections against meritless lawsuits filed in retaliation for one exercising their First Amendment rights.