Episcopal Church Cases 6/26/07 CA4/3

State: California

Court: 1st District Court of Appeal 1st District Court of Appeal

Docket No: G037084

Case Date: 09/12/2007

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT DIVISION THREE

EPISCOPAL CHURCH CASES.

G037084 (JCCP No. 4392) OPINION

Appeals from a judgment and an order of the Superior Court of Orange County, David C. Velasquez, Judge. Both judgment and order reversed. Holme Roberts & Owen and John R. Shiner for Plaintiffs and Appellants Thelma M. Adair, et al. and Patti A. O'Halloran, et al. Goodwin Procter, David Booth Beers and Heather H. Anderson for Plaintiff in Intervention and Appellant The Episcopal Church.

Law Offices of Lynn E. Moyer, Lynn E. Moyer, Law Offices of Kent M. Bridwell and Kent M. Bridwell for Defendants and Respondents. * * *

This is the appeal from an attorney fee order following a successful antiSLAPP suit motion against (basically) the Los Angeles Diocese of the Episcopal Church. The Diocese sought to impose, through various property-related causes of action, control over the use of the property held by two local parish corporations in Los Angeles County, one in Long Beach and the other in North Hollywood. After the motion was granted, the winning local parishes (that is, the boards of trustees of the corporations holding title to the parish property) successfully obtained an attorney fee order against the Diocese (see Code Civ. Proc.,

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