I would assume they are hoping to take the easy route - and hope he doesn't post rather than go after any financial claim. Once they take that next step they open up themselves for a SlappBack suit - which in California can cost someone like Lecere big bucks.
"In the past, juries in some SLAPPback suits have ordered SLAPP filers to pay large sums of monetary and punitive damages to the original SLAPP target."