California Court of Appeal

In plaintiff's suit for defamation against a local publication and its editor and publisher, trial court's denial of defendants' anti-SLAPP motion is affirmed as, plaintiff has met his burden under the anti-SLAPP statute and there is nothing in the defendants' briefs that raises any questions to the contrary, and the trial court correctly observed that, however efficacious the anti-SLAPP procedure may be in the right case, it can be badly abused in the wrong one, resulting in substantial cost and prejudicial delay.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/11/2011
• Published 01/11/2011

Judges

• Richman

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark Cohen, N. Maxwell Njelita