Mireskandari v. Gallagher CA4/1
Shahrokh Mireskandari sued Joseph Scoma, M.D., for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, unfair competition (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 17200), and wrongful disclosure of medical information by a provider (Civ. Code, § 56.10 et seq.), based on the medical advice and opinions Scoma provided to a disciplinary tribunal in London, England, as part of the tribunal's formal proceedings involving Mireskandari. The trial court granted Scoma's special motion to strike under California's anti-SLAPP statute, Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16 (section 425.16), after ruling both that Mireskandari's causes of action arose from Scoma's constitutional right of petition in connection with a public issue and that Mireskandari did not demonstrate a probability of prevailing on the claims.
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