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FLATLEY v. MAURO

No. S128429.

46 Cal.Rptr.3d 606 (2006)

39 Cal.4th 299

139 P.3d 2

Michael FLATLEY, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. D. Dean MAURO, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

July 27, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, James J.S. Holmes, Christina J. Imre, Douglas J. Collodel, Orly Degani, Los Angeles, and Wendy L. Wilcox for Defendant and Appellant.

Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman Machtinger & Kinsella, Bertram Fields and Ricardo P. Cestero, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Levy, Ram & Olson, Karl Olson, Erica L. Craven, San Francisco; Thomas W. Newton, Sacramento; Karlene W. Goller, Los Angeles; Harold W. Fuson, Jr., La Jolla; Stephen J. Burns, Sacramento; Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz and James E. Grossberg for California Newspaper Publishers Association, Los Angeles Times, The Copley Press, Inc., McClatchy Newspapers, Inc., and the Orange County Register as Amici Curiae.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Tom Greene, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Theodora Berger, Assistant Attorney General, Richard M. Frank, Edward G. Weil and Susan S. Fiering, Deputy Attorneys General, as Amici Curiae.

MORENO, J.

Plaintiff Michael Flatley, a well-known entertainer, sued defendant D. Dean Mauro, an attorney, for civil extortion, intentional infliction of emotional distress and wrongful interference with economic advantage. Flatley's action was based on a demand letter Mauro sent to Flatley on behalf of Tyna Marie Robertson, a woman who claimed that Flatley had raped her, and on subsequent telephone calls Mauro made to Flatley's attorneys, demanding a seven-figure...

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