Sourdough & Co. v. GSD Foods CA3
This case arises out of a business dispute between several parties to licensing agreements to operate sandwich restaurants under the trademark “Sourdough & Co.” We are presented with the question of whether a cause of action for fraud and deceit, raised in a cross-complaint, is subject to an anti-SLAPP motion under Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16. The trial court denied the anti-SLAPP motion filed by GSD Foods, Inc., Davinder Singh, Powerglide Holdings, LLC, Kaldeep Uppal, and SD-Folsom, Inc. (collectively GSD) to strike the cause of action for fraud and deceit in a cross-complaint filed by Sourdough & Co, Inc., SFSE of EDH, Inc., Lowell Steven Presson, R. Gordon Ross, and David Bagley (collectively Sourdough). The trial court reasoned that the claim for fraud and deceit related to statements inducing Sourdough to enter the agreements rather than to any protected activity related to the right of access to the courts.
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