Bergstein v. Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Annotate this CasePlaintiff filed suit against the attorneys who represented their adversaries in litigation over various financial transactions, alleging that the attorneys engaged in illegal conduct when they solicited and received confidential, privileged, and/or proprietary information from plaintiffs' former attorney and used that information in the litigation against plaintiffs. The trial court granted defendants' motion to strike the complaint under Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16 (the anti-SLAP statute). The court affirmed the trial court's conclusion that the complaint arose from protected First Amendment activity; there was insufficient evidence to show defendants' conduct was illegal as a matter of law; and plaintiffs did not show a probability of prevailing on their claims because the statute of limitations had run and the litigation privilege barred plaintiffs' claims.
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