Law360 Canada ( June 19, 2026, 11:37 AM EDT) -- Appeal by Resler from a judgment of the Alberta Court of Appeal which reinstated Anglin’s claim in part. Anglin was a member of the legislative assembly who had been unsuccessful in his 2015 re-election bid. He filed a civil claim against Resler, the chief electoral officer of Alberta, claiming that Resler exercised public powers for an improper or ulterior motive, knowing that doing so was likely to cause harm, and caused various losses and damages, including the loss of chance of being re-elected. Resler applied to strike the claim. Concluding that the claim disclosed no reasonable cause of action and, in any case, the allegations had no reasonable chance of success given Resler’s common law and statutory immunities and that it was an abuse of process in part because it called upon the court to inquire into the validity of the election, the chambers judge struck out the claim in its entirety. The majority of the Court of Appeal reinstated Anglin’s claim, except for the allegations of malicious prosecution, which it held were properly struck. Resler submitted in part that Anglin’s claim constituted a collateral attack on the 2015 election result and amounted to an abuse of process. He further argued that the CEO’s conduct was protected by parliamentary privilege or, in the alternative, by statutory immunity....