Cohen v. Brown
The defendants in this case, attorney Michael Brown and the California Lawyers Group, LLP have appealed from an order denying their special motion to strike the plaintiffs first amended complaint (complaint). The motion was brought under Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16, the anti-SLAPP statute ( 425.16, SLAPPstrategic lawsuit against public participation).
The trial court denied the motion because it determined that the activities of Brown on which the special motion to strike the complaint is based were not acts taken by Brown as a valid exercise of his rights of petition or free speech ( 425.16, subd. (b)(1), but rather constituted extortion and were therefore illegal. Court find the courts analysis is correct and Court affirm the courts order.
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