California Court of Appeal

In action for breach of contract and fraud, denial of anti-SLAPP motion claiming the lawsuit arises from the exercise of constitutional rights of free speech and petition in processing a tract map is affirmed as plaintiff developer brought its lawsuit to vindicate a legally cognizable right, not to obtain an economic advantage over the defendants.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/18/2007
• Published 07/18/2007

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Michael M. Berger, Lara M. Krieger, Los Angeles;  and William S. Walter, Oakland, for Defendants and Appellants., Adamski Moroski Madden & Green, Thomas D. Green, Avila Beach, Raymond A. Biering, San Luis Obispo;  Brown, Winfield & Canzoneri and Thomas F. Winfield III, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Respondent.