California Court of Appeal

A malicious prosecution claim was not actionable where an underlying suit by a home buyer, for damages allegedly stemming from undisclosed construction defects, was not so untenable that no reasonable attorney would have pursued it.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/03/2002
• Published 11/05/2002

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  John K. Saur, Laguna Hills, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, Randall A. Miller, and Douglas J. Collodel, Los Angeles, for Defendants and Respondents George C. Rudolph and the Rudolph Law Group., Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, Roy G. Weatherup, Los Angeles, Bruce Cleeland, Santa Ana, Jon M. Kasimov and J. Alan Warfield, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Respondent Haight, Brown & Bonesteel.