ITV Gurney Holding Inc. v. Gurney CA2/1
Appellants challenge the trial court’s order denying their anti-SLAPP motion. (See Code Civ. Proc., § 425.16.) For the reasons we discuss below this was error.
This appeal is the latest, but by no means the final, stage in litigation between appellants, a number of entities associated with the British media company ITV, and respondents, Scott and Deirdre Gurney and their holding company, Little Win LLC (collectively the Gurneys).
ITV invested approximately $40 million to obtain a majority ownership stake in the Gurneys’ television production company, Gurney Productions, LLC. The Gurneys retained a minority stake. Later, ITV discovered evidence of what it believed was misconduct by the Gurneys in the operation of Gurney Productions. ITV fired the Gurneys from their positions as co-CEO’s of Gurney Productions and filed suit. The Gurneys filed a cross-complaint.
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