Title: Zamos v. Stroud

State: california

Issuer: California Supreme Court

Document:

Filed 6/9/04 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 
JEROME ZAMOS et al., 
) 
 
 
) 
 
Plaintiffs and Appellants, 
) 
 
 
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S118032 
 
v. 
) 
 
 
) 
Ct.App. 2/5 B160484 
JAMES T. STROUD et al., 
) 
 
) 
Los Angeles County 
 
Defendants and Respondents. ) 
Super. Ct. No. LC 060622 
___________________________________ ) 
 
MODIFICATION OF OPINION 
 
 
THE COURT: 
The opinion herein, appearing at 32 Cal.4th 958, is modified as follows: 
 
 
1. In 32 Cal.4th at page 969, insert the phrase “according to the evidence 
presented in opposition to the anti-SLAPP motion” after “Here,” in the last 
sentence of the first full paragraph.  The modified sentence would read:   
 
“Here, according to the evidence presented in opposition to the 
 
anti-SLAPP motion, defendants in the malicious prosecution action 
 
continued their prosecution of the underlying fraud action after 
 
learning it was baseless.” 
 
 
2. In 32 Cal.4th at page 970, delete the phrase “primarily an issue of fact” 
from the last sentence of footnote 9.  Replace it with the phrase “a question of law 
to be decided on a case-by-case basis.”  The modified sentence would read: 
“The reasonableness of counsel’s persistence is, of course, a 
question of law to be decided on a case-by-case basis, and we have 
no occasion here to formulate more detailed rules.” 
 
This modification does not affect the judgment.