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Zamos v. Stroud

Citations

  • 87 P.3d 802
  • 12 Cal. Rptr. 3d 54
  • 32 Cal. 4th 958

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • ‘‘[c]ontinuing an action one discovers to be baseless harms [a party] and burdens the court system just as much as initiating an action known to be baseless from the outset’’
  • with a similar test for initiating malicious prosecution as Hawai'i, applying the same standard to the continuation as to the initiation of a suit
  • “[A]n attorney may be held liable for malicious prosecution for continuing to prosecute a lawsuit discovered to lack probable cause.”
  • in the context of California’s broader statute, the party filing the anti-SLAPP motion has the initial burden of establishing that the plaintiffs claim arose from protected activity
  • tort of malicious prosecution is disfavored

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Brown

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