Mann v. Quality Old Time Service, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a 21 party is not considered to have “prevailed” where “the results of the motion were so insignificant 22 that the party did not achieve any practical benefit from bringing the motion”
• “Whereas defamation concerns injury to the reputation of a 13 person or business, trade libel involves false disparagement of the quality of goods or services.”
• “Whereas defamation concerns injury to the reputation of a person or business, 7 trade libel involves false disparagement of the quality of goods or services.”
• “The fees awarded to a defendant who was only partially successful on an antiSLAPP motion should be commensurate with the extent to which the motion changed the nature and character of the lawsuit in a practical way.”
• “[A] party who partially prevails on an anti-SLAPP motion must generally be considered a prevailing party unless the results of the motion were so 24 insignificant that the party did not achieve any practical benefit from bringing the 25 motion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).