PARK 100 INVESTMENT GROUP II, LLC v. Ryan

Opinion

ALDRICH, J.

I

INTRODUCTION

Defendants in this case are attorneys who, in the course of representing a real property owner in a prior lawsuit involving an easement dispute, filed a lis pendens on a dominant tenement. The owners of the dominant tenement turned around and, in the present case, sued the attorneys, claiming the lis pendens was wrongfully recorded. The attorneys appeal from the denial of their anti-SLAPP motion (Code Civ. Proc., § 425.16).

In the published portions of this opinion, we hold that it is proper to record a notice of pendency of action, commonly called a lis pendens,…