Dignity Health v. Mounts CA2/6
Dignity Health, doing business as French Hospital Medical Center (Hospital), appeals an order denying its anti-SLAPP motion (Code Civ. Proc., § 425.16) to strike a physician’s cross-complaint for Health and Safety Code, section 1278.5 retaliation, intentional interference with prospective economic opportunity, and unlawful business practices (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 17000 et seq.). The cross-complaint alleges that Hospital instituted a retaliatory peer review to pressure Troy I. Mounts, M.D. to resign after Mounts complained about hospital patient care. Hospital’s communications and reports with respect to the peer review allegedly interfered with Mounts’ ability to obtain staff privileges at other hospitals. The trial court denied the anti-SLAPP motion because it believed a retaliatory hospital peer review was not a protected activity within the meaning of the anti-SLAPP statute.
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