LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT: The First Amendment is Not an Absolute Bar. These appeals arise from a dispute concerning a television production based on the life of the Mexican-American celebrity Jenni Rivera, who died in a plane crash in December 2012. The entity that...
Month: June 2019
IS IT UNETHICAL FOR AN ATTORNEY TO NOT GRANT RELIEF FROM DEFAULT?
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT. This is a good read of ethics and attorneys' duties. Here is what Code of Civil Procedure section 583.130 says: “It is the policy of the state that a plaintiff shall proceed with reasonable diligence in the prosecution of an action but that all...
COURT REVERSES ANTI-SLAPP ORDER IN MALICIOUS PROSECUTION CASE!
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT After successfully obtaining summary judgment on a lawsuit brought by his former employer, Antonio Cuevas-Martinez sued the employer and their attorney (collectively, respondents) for malicious prosecution. Respondents filed an anti-SLAPP motion to...
IS A THIRD PARTY A PERSON IN A MANDAMUS ACTION RE ANTI-SLAPP?
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT The issue of whether a real party in interest in a mandamus proceeding is a “person” against whom a claim is asserted for purposes of the anti-SLAPP statute has apparently not been addressed in any reported decision. However, as Petitioners in this...