California Court of Appeal

Denial of special motion to strike brought under the anti-SLAPP statute is reversed where an email message defendant sent questioning the financial condition of plaintiff concerned a matter of public interest, and that plaintiff failed to demonstrate a probability of prevailing on the merits of its claims for defamation, breach of contract, tortious interference, and violations of Business and Professions Code section 17200 et seq.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/14/2006
• Published 06/14/2006

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bond Curtis,Tom Curtis, Berkeley and Alexander W. Kirkpatrick, Pasadena, for Defendant and Appellant., McNeil, Tropp & Braun, Costa Mesa, Yolita Nowak Lecellier, Jeff I. Braun and Deborah S. Tropp, Costa Mesa, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Catherine I. Hanson, San Francisco and Gregory M. Abrams, for California Medical Association and American Medical Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.