Civil Litigation,
California Courts of Appeal,
Appellate Practice
Jan. 22, 2018
Pursuing frivolous anti-SLAPP appeals is a dangerous game
Lawyers who try to game the system by appealing a frivolous anti-SLAPP motion may succeed in causing their opponent undue cost and lengthy delay, but they do so at the risk of being sanctioned, or perhaps worse, being lambasted in a published opinion.
Kelly Woodruff
Of Counsel
California Appellate Law Group
Email: kelly@kwoodrufflaw.com
California Appellate Law Group, an appellate boutique based in San Francisco and with a new office in Los Angeles. Kelly has clerked in both the 9th Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii. Find out more about Kelly and the California Appellate Law Group at www.calapplaw.com. Appellate Zealots is a monthly column on recent appellate decisions written by the attorneys of the California Appellate Law Group.
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Lawyers who try to game the system by appealing a frivolous anti-SLAPP motion may succeed in causing their opponent undue cost and lengthy delay, but they do so at the risk of being sanctioned, or perhaps worse, being lambasted by the Court of Appeal in a published opinion. Which is precisely what happened recently to Dignity Healthcare and its lawyers in Central Valley Hospitalists v. Dignity Health
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