California Court of Appeal

In a dispute involving a real estate transaction, trial court's grant of defendant's motion to strike under the anti-SLAPP statute is reversed where: 1) plaintiff's slander of title cause of action is subject to the anti-SLAPP statute, and the filing of the notice of lis pendens by defendant arose out of protected activity as they bore a relationship to the arbitration proceedings; and 2) defendant's filing of the lis pendens was not proper as a lis pendens can only to be filed in court in connection with judicial proceedings.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/06/2009
• Published 05/06/2009

Judges

• ASHMANN-GERST, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Leonard, Dicker & Schreiber, Richard C. Leonard and Steven A. Schuman, Beverly Hills, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bingham McCutchen, Bruce A. Friedman, Roland Tellis, and Heather L. Ristau, Santa Monica, for Defendants and Respondents.