Supreme Court of California

Defendants who do not file a special motion to strike pursuant to the anti-SLAPP statute, before plaintiffs- voluntary dismissal of their SLAPP suit, may not recover attorney fees and costs pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16, subdivision (c).

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/31/2006
• Published 07/31/2006

Judges

• CORRIGAN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Davis Wright Tremaine,Kelli L. Sager, Sonja R. West, Gary L. Bostwick, Rochelle L. Wilcox, Los Angeles;  Foley & Bezek, Peter J. Bezek and Robert A. Curtis, Santa Barbara, for Defendants and Appellants., Davis Wright Tremaine, Thomas R. Burke, San Francisco, and Kavita Amar, for Sierra Club as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants., Levy, Ram & Olson, Karl Olson, San Francisco;  Karlene W. Goller, Los Angeles;  Jonathan Donnellan;  Thomas W. Newton, Sacramento;  Harold W. Fuson, Jr., La Jolla;  Stephen J. Burns, Sacramento;  David McCraw;  and David Greene, for California Newspaper Publishers Association, Los Angeles Times, Hearst Communications, Inc., The Copley Press, Inc., McClatchy Newspapers, Inc., New York Times Company, California First Amendment Coalition and First Amendment Project as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants., Cappello & Noel, A. Barry Cappello, Troy A. Thielemann, Wendy D. Welkom and Christoph T. Nettesheim, Santa Barbara, for Plaintiff and Respondent S.B. Beach Properties., Grokenberger & Smith, David W. Grokenberger, Santa Barbara, and W. Bradley Thomas, for Plaintiffs and Respondents William J. Levy and Roy J. Millender, Jr., Thelen Reid & Priest, Daven G. Lowhurst, Patrick M. Ryan and Chad DeVeaux, San Francisco, for Richard Lamm as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.