Law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP is entitled to its full fees on its motion to strike a malpractice complaint, a California appeals court ruled Friday, remanding the case with directions to award defendants the full $79,889 they requested.
UCLA linguistics professor Natalie Operstein sued Seyfarth and one of its former partners in 2020, seeking $24 million in damages over their investigation of her discrimination and harassment complaints against California State University at Fullerton.
Operstein and her husband Craig Ross dismissed their suit, never showing that it had merit, while Seyfarth’s anti-SLAPP motion was entirely meritorious, Judge Elizabeth A. Grimes wrote ...
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