James v. Keck CA2/5
In the 1980s, plaintiff Robert James (James) and defendant Howard Keck, Jr. (Keck) both owned land in Riverside County. When the local water district proposed building a sewage plant nearby, James rallied Keck and other neighbors to form a property owners’ association that litigated and lobbied against the project, and the plant was ultimately built elsewhere. Decades later, James filed a lawsuit claiming Keck was unjustly enriched by James’s efforts to relocate the sewage plant. Keck responded by filing an anti-SLAPP special motion to strike James’s complaint, and we consider whether, as the trial court found in denying the anti-SLAPP motion, James’s lawsuit did not arise from Keck’s participation in the campaign against the sewage plant.
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