California Court of Appeal

In a dispute between computer software companies, alleging that defendant-Oracle breached contractual and other duties by announcing that it would no longer make its software products compatible with certain plaintiff-HP hardware products, dismissal of defendant's anti-SLAPP motion as untimely is affirmed where the motion was late under any reasonable construction of the facts, and it was quite properly denied because it could not possibly achieve the purposes for which the anti-SLAPP statute was enacted. Sanctions against defendant are declined only because the court does not wish to further delay the long-overdue trial of the merits of this action.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/27/2015
• Published 08/27/2015

Judges

• RUSHING

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel