California Court of Appeal

In a defamation action, trial court's grant of defendant's motion to strike plaintiff's complaint under California's anti-SLAPP law is affirmed where plaintiffs did not meet their burden of establishing a probability of prevailing on their defamation claim as no reasonable viewer could have reasonably understood the statement made by defendant to have the false and defamatory meaning attributed to it by plaintiffs.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/14/2009
• Published 05/14/2009

Judges

• HALLER, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mitchell & Gilleon, James C. Mitchell and Daniel M. Gilleon, San Diego, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton and Guylyn R. Cummins, San Diego, for Defendant and Respondent.