FCS059061
Defendant’s Motion for Attorneys’ Fees Following Anti-SLAPP Motion
TENTATIVE RULING
Defendant DOMINIQUE HUNTER moves for an award of attorneys’ fees
following her successful special motion to strike under Code of Civil Procedure
section 425.16 (“anti-SLAPP” motion) against Plaintiff VACAVILLE UNIFIED
SCHOOL DISTRICT’s first amended complaint.
Attorneys’ Fees Following Anti-SLAPP Motion. A prevailing defendant on an
anti-SLAPP motion is entitled to reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs. (Code
Civ. Proc., § 425.16, subd. (c); Ketchum v. Moses (2001) 21 Cal.4th 1122, 1130
(Ketchum).) A motion for fees may follow a successful anti-SLAPP motion even
where the order on that anti-SLAPP motion has been appealed. (Carpenter v.
Jack in the Box Corp. (2007) 151 Cal.App.4th 454, 461.)
Such an award of fees and costs is limited to those incurred making and
defending the result of the anti-SLAPP motion and is not to include fees and
costs incurred in the lawsuit as a whole. (Wanland v. Law