L.A. Taxi Cooperative, Inc. v. Independent Taxi Owners Ass'n

Opinion

MANELLA, J.

INTRODUCTION

Plaintiffs L.A. Taxi Cooperative, Inc., doing business as Los Angeles Yellow Cab (Yellow Cab), and Bell Cab Company, Inc. (Bell Cab), sued defendants The Independent Taxi Owners Association of Los Angeles (ITOA), L.A. Checker Cab Cooperative, Inc. (Checker Cab), and Leonid Satanovsky for false advertising on the Internet. Defendants filed a special motion to strike plaintiffs’ entire complaint pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16 (the anti-SLAPP motion). The trial court denied the anti-SLAPP motion, ruling that defendants had not met their threshold…