S.B. BEACH PROPERTIES v. BERTI

No. S127513.

46 Cal.Rptr.3d 380 (2006)

39 Cal.4th 374

138 P.3d 713

S.B. BEACH PROPERTIES et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. Richard A. BERTI et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

July 31, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davis Wright Tremaine, Kelli L. Sager, Sonja R. West, Gary L. Bostwick, Rochelle L. Wilcox, Los Angeles; Foley & Bezek, Peter J. Bezek and Robert A. Curtis, Santa Barbara, for Defendants and Appellants.

Davis Wright Tremaine, Thomas R. Burke, San Francisco, and Kavita Amar, for Sierra Club as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Levy, Ram & Olson, Karl Olson, San Francisco; Karlene W. Goller, Los Angeles; Jonathan Donnellan; Thomas W. Newton, Sacramento; Harold W. Fuson, Jr., La Jolla; Stephen J. Burns, Sacramento; David McCraw; and David Greene, for California Newspaper Publishers Association, Los Angeles Times, Hearst Communications, Inc., The Copley Press, Inc., McClatchy Newspapers, Inc., New York Times Company, California First Amendment Coalition and First Amendment Project as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Cappello & Noel, A. Barry Cappello, Troy A. Thielemann, Wendy D. Welkom and Christoph T. Nettesheim, Santa Barbara, for Plaintiff and Respondent S.B. Beach Properties.

Grokenberger & Smith, David W. Grokenberger, Santa Barbara, and W. Bradley Thomas, for Plaintiffs and Respondents William J. Levy and Roy J. Millender, Jr.

Thelen Reid & Priest, Daven G. Lowhurst, Patrick M. Ryan and Chad DeVeaux, San Francisco, for Richard Lamm as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.


CORRIGAN, J.

A strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) is subject to a special motion to strike (anti-SLAPP motion), under Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16 (anti-SLAPP statute).1 A defendant who is the "prevailing [party] on" such a motion is "entitled to recover his or her attorney's fees and costs." (§ 425.16, subd. (c).) Here, plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed their entire action without prejudice before...

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