, that the allegations [51 Cal. App. 3d 653] of the petition were treated by both parties as including matters not directly alleged therein but brought to the court's attention in appendices to the memoranda of points and authorities filed in support of and in opposition to the demurrers....
Because the trial court overruled (denied) the defendants’ demurrer, the defendant retained one of the most well known appellate specialists to file a writ, which Second Appellate District granted on June 5, 2024, Cohen et al. v. Superior Court Los Angeles County et al., (Case: B330202)....
Thereafter, on March 7, 1963, each of the plaintiffs filed her declaration in opposition to the pending motion. In addition there were filed on plaintiffs' behalf declarations of the former secretary and of the former assistant secretary of the Company, of two appraisers, and of two individual...
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opposition. The simple fact is that unscrupulous parties sometimes use lawsuits as a means to intimidate parties into silence. Thus, a SLAPP suit is one where the plaintiff has filed a frivolous lawsuit, not really seeking justice or damages, but to use the action to intimidate the defendant....
Neither in their opposition to the anti-SLAPP motion, nor on appeal, do plaintiffs argue that DIRECTV failed to make this necessary showing. Effectively, therefore, plaintiffs have conceded that their lawsuit “arises from” DIRECTV’s “free speech or petitioning activity” (Code Civ. Proc....
A strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) is a lawsuit that is intended to censor, intimidate and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition. Our own Aaron Morris, a well-known writer on the topics of defa...
however, take place. The reason for its being postponed was that in November 1976 Northrop moved for permission to amend its complaint further to take immediate advantage of the enactment of the initially mentioned section 905.1. The trial court granted permission over the opposition of the city....
[6 Cal. App. 3d 587]of one of plaintiff's attorneys filed in opposition to the motion for judgment on the pleadings that it was stated in depositions of two police officers that in October 1964 the Long Beach Police Department prepared a pamphlet fn. 1 which stated that although autoet...
The order of the court rested primarily on the results of the Huffman/Dart survey and the opposition of the Tahoe Donner Association to the suit. The court concluded that plaintiffs had not "carried the burden of proving [29 Cal. 3d 469] the 'representative party has interests which are ...