California Court of Appeal

In the context of defamation actions subject to the constitutional malice standard, when a plaintiff fails to demonstrate that allegedly defamatory statements are "provably" false factual assertions, no "good cause" exists to conduct discovery concerning actual malice.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/13/2008
• Published 06/13/2008

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Holland & Knight, Charles D. Tobin, Judith F. Bonilla and Shelley G. Hurwitz, Los Angeles, for Petitioner., Dreier Stein & Kahan, Stanton L. Stein, Samuel R. Pryor, Lauren Sudar and Jesse M. Leff, Santa Monica, for Real Party in Interest.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent.