Civil Litigation,
California Courts of Appeal
Oct. 17, 2019
A bad case for lawyers
In an anti-SLAPP case, the court inadvertently highlighted one of the linguistic challenges in anti-SLAPP jurisprudence — what exactly is “minimal merit” and why is it not different from a “probability of prevailing at trial” standard?
Timothy D. Reuben
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Reuben, Raucher & Blum
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Reuben is the founder and CEO at Reuben Raucher & Blum. Alongside his extensive career as a civil litigator specializing in complex matters at both the trial and appellate level, he serves pro bono as a temporary judge and settlement officer for the Los Angeles Superior Court, as well as a fee arbitrator for the LA County Bar.
Sometimes the courts just get it wrong, and it certainly appears they did in Abir Cohen Treyzon Salo, LLP v Art Lahiji, 2019 DJDAR 9551 (Oct. 2, 2019). Division 2 of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, with Justice Brian Hoffstadt writing for the court, joined by Justices Elwood Lui and $95
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