Definitions

As used in this Chapter:

(a)AGovernment’ includes a branch, department, agency, instrumentality, official, employee, agent or other person acting under color of law of the United States, a State, a Territory, or a subdivision of a State or Territory, including municipalities and their boards, commissions, and departments, or other public authority, including the electorate.

(b)‘Person’ includes any individual, corporation, association, organization, partnership, two

(2)or more persons having a joint or common interest, or other legal entity.

(c)‘Judicial claim’ or ‘claim’ includes any lawsuit, cause of action, claim, cross-claim, counterclaim, or other judicial pleading or filing requesting relief.

(d)‘Motion’ includes any motion to dismiss, for summary judgment, for judgment on the pleadings, to strike, demurrer, or any other judicial pleading filed to dispose of a judicial claim.

(e)‘Moving party’ means any person on whose behalf the motion described in § 17104 is filed seeking dismissal of the judicial claim.

(f)‘Responding party’ means any person against whom the motion described in § 17104 is filed.