Supreme Court of California

For purposes of constituting a favorable termination of a lawsuit as a predicate for a subsequent malicious prosecution action, a postjudgment settlement constitutes a favorable termination when the malicious prosecution plaintiff received a favorable judgment in the underlying action, and settled without giving up any portion of the judgment in his favor.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/16/2007
• Published 07/16/2007

Judges

• CORRIGAN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Blecher & Collins, Maxwell M. Blecher, Ralph C. Hofer, Los Angeles;  Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, Robin Meadow and Laura Boudreau, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Appellant., DLA Piper RudnickGray Cary US, Mark H. Hamer and Jarod M. Bona, for National Federation of Independent Business Legal Foundation, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Law Offices of Tony J. Tanke, Tony J. Tanke, Davis;  Law Offices of Gary L. Sims, Gary L. Simms, San Mateo;  Roeca, Haas, Hager, Russell S. Roeca, Daniel W. Hager, San Francisco;  Murphy, Pearson, Bradley, Feeney, Timothy J. Halloran and Christine A. Huntoon, San Francisco, for Defendants and Respondents.