California Court of Appeal

In defamation action against an heir's attorney arising from an inheritance dispute between a brother and sister concerning the distribution of their deceased father's assets, denial of motion to strike the sister's complaint under the anti-SLAPP statute is reversed where voicemail messages left by the brother's attorney are covered by the anti-SLAPP statute and the litigation privilege in Civil Code section 47(b).

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/13/2007
• Published 08/13/2007

Judges

• MOSK, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Wolf, Rifkin, Shapiro & Schulman, Roy G. Rifkin and Ryan P. Eskin, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Appellant., Catanese & Wells, T. Randolph Catanese and Douglas R. Hume, Westlake Village, for Plaintiff and Respondent.