AVERILL v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. G018293.

42 Cal.App.4th 1170 (1996)

50 Cal. Rptr.2d 62

JEANNIE AVERILL, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ORANGE COUNTY, Respondent; ELI HOME, INC., Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three.

February 23, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Howard, Moss, Loveder, Strickroth & Walker, Robert A. Walker and Mitchell L. Leverett for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Charles M. Farano and Thomas G. Kieviet for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

RYLAARSDAM, J.

Petitioner, a homeowner, is a critic of a plan by a charitable organization to convert a house in her neighborhood into a shelter for battered women. Because of comments she made to her employer regarding that organization, it sued her for slander. A motion to strike pursuant to the anti-SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) suit statute was denied. She filed a petition for writ of mandate which...

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