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Judges and Judiciary

Feb. 2, 2016

Santa Monica judge's ruling has lawyers scratching their heads

Attorneys say Gerald Rosenberg might be confused in sorting through anti-SLAPP law

By Matthew Blake
Daily Journal Staff Writer

A Santa Monica judge's hard-to-explain reversal of a tentative ruling has outside observers scratching their heads and the losing side's lawyer crying foul.

In dual motions for reconsideration and a new trial filed the past week, plaintiff lawyer Jeffrey Wittenberg of Wittenberg Law APC states Superior Court Judge Gerald Rosenberg's final ruling, which struck a defendant...

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