{"data":{"id":"us-pa/42-pa.c.s.-8340.13","jurisdiction":"us-pa","citation":"42 Pa.C.S. § 8340.13","heading":"Definitions.","body":"The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:\n\"Cause of action based on protected public expression.\" A cause of action under section 8340.14 (relating to scope of subchapter).\n\"Goods or services.\" The term does not include the creation, dissemination, exhibition or advertisement or similar promotion of a dramatic, literary, musical, political, journalistic or artistic work.\n\"Protected public expression.\" A person's:\n(1) communication in a legislative, executive, judicial or administrative proceeding;\n(2) communication on an issue under consideration or review in a legislative, executive, judicial or administrative proceeding; or\n(3) exercise, on a matter of public concern, of the rights of freedom of speech or of the press, the right to assemble or petition or the right of association, guaranteed by:\n(i) the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; or\n(ii) section 7 or 20 of Article I of the Constitution of Pennsylvania.\n\"Protected public expression immunity.\" Immunity under section 8340.15 (relating to grant of immunity).","path":["Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE","PART VII CIVIL ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS","CHAPTER 83 PARTICULAR RIGHTS AND IMMUNITIES","SUBCHAPTER C.1 PROTECTED PUBLIC EXPRESSION"],"source_url":"https://www.palegis.us/statutes/consolidated/view-statute?txtType=HTM\u0026ttl=42\u0026div=0\u0026chpt=83\u0026sctn=40\u0026subsctn=13","current_through":"2026-08-03 (Statute Update stamp, 42 Pa.C.S.)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T16:33:14Z","sha256":"9970fb93700f59456d753ab2d6a8143bb12e23511c2216d65f9613ffb493a89d","source_id":"us-pa","stale":false,"prev":"us-pa/42-pa.c.s.-8340.12","next":"us-pa/42-pa.c.s.-8340.14"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}