ANTI-SLAPP MOTION TO STRIKE CROSS-COMPLAINANT ROBERT LINDOW’ FIRST AMENDED CROSS-COMPLAINT by Nemat and Maryam Maleksaleh The motion is granted. Mr. Lindow’s procedural challenge to the motion as untimely under CCP §425.16 (f) i rejected. The motion was filed within 60 days of the filing of the First Amended Cross Complaint; and the conditions of the court required the motion to be set out beyond 30 days o filing. The Maleksalehis have met their burden of making a threshold prima facie showing tha Mr. Lindow’s cross-complaint arises from protected activity. The allegations of the cross complaint demonstrate that the gravamen of the cross-complaint is Mr. Maleksalehi’s filing o his complaint against other parties (the Tabatabais), which Lindow claims caused Tabatabai t file a cross-complaint against Lindow. The first c/a for abuse of process alleges that “pursuant t the goals of the conspiracy Mr. Maleksalehi filed this action”, and named Mr. Tabatabai; tha “Mr. Tabatabai then sued Mr.