California Court of Appeal

In action for breach of contract, fraud, conspiracy to defraud and other theories, arising from dispute over sale of two parcels of plaintiffs' real property to defendant, orders granting special motions to strike the complaint under the anti-SLAPP statute are reversed where the trial court erroneously found that the references in the various causes of action to the applications for city development permits converted these causes of action into liability claims that were based principally upon protected speech or conduct.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/25/2007
• Published 07/25/2007

Judges

• HUFFMAN, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ross, Dixon & Bell, Mohammed K. Ghods, Alec M. Barinholtz, Irvine, and William A. Stahr for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gresham, Savage, Nolan & Tilden, Theodore K. Stream, Riverside, and Jennifer M. Guenther, San Bernardino, for Defendants and Respondents Wal-Mart Real Estate Business Trust, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and City of San Bernardino., Cooper, White & Cooper, Stephen D. Kaus and Denise C. Reagan, San Francisco, for Defendant and Respondent LSA Associates, Inc., Weil & Drage, Jean W. Weil and Anthony D. Platt for Defendants and Respondents Hall & Foreman, Inc. and Harold Garcelon.