Supreme Court of California

Where a cause of action is based on a communicative act, the litigation privilege of Civil Code section 47 extends to those noncommunicative actions which are necessarily related to that communicative act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/23/2006
• Published 02/23/2006

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Law Office of Robert F. Henry and Robert F. Henry, Culver City, for Cross-complainant and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, John R. Feliton, Jr., Elizabeth G. O'Donnell and Raul L. Martinez, Los Angeles, for Cross-defendants and Respondents., Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney and Mark E. Ellis, Sacramento, for California Association of Collectors, National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys and California Creditors Bar Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Cross-defendants and Respondents.