Chemla v. Bermudez CA2/1
Defendants and appellants Lou Bermudez and Practice Sales & Appraisals, LLC (sometimes collectively Bermudez defendants) and defendant and appellant Marlene Leiva (Leiva) appeal from the trial court’s denial of their anti-SLAPP motion pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16 (anti-SLAPP statute). Defendants sought to strike the Doe amendment adding Leiva as a defendant to the fourth cause of action for legal malpractice in the First Amended Complaint (FAC) of plaintiffs and respondents Dr. Marc Chemla, D.D.S. and Marc Chemla, D.D.S., Inc. (sometimes collectively the Chemla plaintiffs).
The Chemla plaintiffs alleged that Leiva is Lou Bermudez’s wife and the Bermudez defendants’ in-house counsel when the Bermudez defendants brokered the sale of the Chemla plaintiffs’ dental practice to John M. Chaves, D.D.S. and his two professional corporations (the Chaves buyers).
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