California Court of Appeal
SANTA MONICA RENT CONTROL BD. v. PEARL STREET, LLC, B157751
In an action alleging evasion of rent control, a SLAPP order striking the Board's complaint must be reversed, as must the order awarding defendants attorney's fees, where defendants failed to meet their burden of showing that the basis of this suit is an act taken by defendants in furtherance of their constitutional right of petition or free speech.
Appellate Information
- Decided 06/20/2003
- Published 06/20/2003
Judges
- CROSKEY, Acting P.J.
Court
- California Court of Appeal
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Doris M. Ganga and Michaelyn Jones, Fountain Valley, for Plaintiff and Appellant.
- For Appellees:
- Law Offices of Rosario Perry, Rosario Perry and Dionne M. Marucchi, Santa Monica, for Defendant and Respondent Robert Hackamack., Renay G. Rodriguez, for Defendants and Respondents Pearl Street, LLC and Rosario Perry.