Civil Litigation,
California Supreme Court
Jun. 5, 2010
Supreme Court SLAPPS for Lawyers
The anti-SLAPP statute has become a huge factor in litigation over the past 15 years and its applicability continues to be debated.
Timothy D. Reuben
Reuben MediationTim Reuben spent more than 40 years handling complex legal disputes in California's state and federal courts. As the founder and managing partner of Reuben Raucher & Blum in Los Angeles, he has worked on a wide range of matters through jury and bench trials, arbitration, mediation, judicial reference, and settlement conferences across multiple areas of civil law, including commercial, real estate, construction, employment, intellectual property, insurance, professional liability, and unfair competition.
In a well-written opinion, our California Supreme Court has further clarified the twilight zone of the anti-SLAPP statute and happily ruled that lawyers can strike lawsuits against them by potential defendants when attorneys advertise for clients who may have been damaged by a particular company. Justice Marvin Baxter, writing for a unanimous court in Simpson Strong-Tie Co. v. Gore, 2010 DJDAR 7087, held that the exemption from the anti-SLAPP statute for commercial speech under Co...
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