Sheldon Appel Co. v. Albert & Oliker

Opinion

ARGUELLES, J.

Albert & Oliker (A&O), a law firm, appeals from a judgment entered against it in a malicious prosecution action. The law firm contends that the trial court erred in permitting the case to go to the jury, asserting that the court should have concluded, on the basis of the uncontroverted facts, that Sheldon Appel Company (Sheldon Appel) had failed to establish one of the essential elements of a malicious prosecution action— namely, that the prior action, on which the malicious prosecution claim was based, had been brought “without probable cause.” The Court of Appeal…