Supreme Court of California

A municipality's state action for declaratory relief as to the constitutionality of a mobilehome park rent stabilization ordinance, filed in response to a federal declaratory relief action brought by park owners as to the same ordinance, did not constitute a SLAPP suit under Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/29/2002
• Published 08/29/2002

Judges

• WERDEGAR, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Endeman, Lincoln, Turek & Heater, Donald R. Lincoln, Henry E. Heater, San Diego.  Linda B. Reich, San Diego;  Walter & Pistole and Jeffrey A. Walter, Sonoma, for Plaintiff and Appellant., Levy, Ram, Olson & Rossi, Karl Olson;  Karlene W. Goller, Los Angeles;  Harold W. Fuson, Jr., La Jolla;  and Thomas W. Newton, Sacramento, for California Newspaper Publishers Association, Los Angeles Times and Copley Press, Inc., as Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Pacific Legal Foundation, R.S. Radford, Sacramento, Meriem L. Hubbard and Harold E. Johnson for Defendants and Respondents., Law Office of James J. Moneer and James J. Moneer, San Diego, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.