Legal Opinion
Sierra Club Foundation v. Graham
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 10, 1999No. A078387, A080685PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
REARDON, J.
This case has a hint of the “stranger than fiction” flavor: Foundation sues former substantial donor for malicious prosecution based on the donor’s fruitless federal suit against the foundation for fraud, breach of contract and other causes. The donor urges attorneys general from two states to get involved. One declines but the other launches an accounting action against the foundation in which a purported beneficiary of the donor’s gift intervenes; this action settles.
This appeal—from a judgment for compensatory and punitive damages in favor of the foundation—probes all…
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