United States Ninth Circuit

Dismissal rulings, grant of a motion to strike under the California anti-SLAPP law, and an award of attorney's fees for defendants are reversed in part where, contrary to the ruling below, certain of county supervisor's hostile public statements directed at a company owning and managing several local mobile home parks were actionable.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/07/2007
• Decided 03/06/2008
• Published 03/06/2008

Judges

• Before:  CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David J. Bradford, Jenner & Block LLC, Chicago, IL, for the plaintiff-appellant;  Elliot L. Bien, Bien & Summers LLP, Novato, CA, was on the briefs.


• For Appellees:
  
• William A. Johnson, Jr., Senior Deputy, San Diego, CA, for the defendants-appellees;  John J. Sansone, County Counsel, County of San Diego, and James M. Chapin, Senior Deputy, San Diego, CA, were on the brief.