Aron v. WIB Holdings

*1072This appeal concerns the grant of a new trial motion after entry of an order and judgment granting a special motion to strike the complaint under Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16.1 The trial court granted the anti-SLAPP motion on the grounds that the plaintiff's action arose out of an underlying unlawful detainer action, which is protected petitioning activity under section 425.16, and that the plaintiff could not establish a reasonable probability of prevailing on the merits because the defendant's appeal of the underlying unlawful detainer judgment was pending at the time the…