Appellants Corinna Reyes and Golden State Care Collective, Inc. (together,
“Reyes” or “appellants”), filed a complaint for malicious prosecution against property
owner Kim Kruger and Kim Kruger Trust (together, Kruger) and Kruger’s former
attorney, Todd Rothbard (Rothbard), for what Reyes contended was a wrongful eviction.
The trial court granted Kruger’s and Rothbard’s (together, respondents’) motions to strike
the complaint under California’s anti-SLAPP statute (Code Civ. Proc., § 425.16)1 and
denied appellants’ subsequent motion for new trial. On appeal, appellants seek to
challenge the order granting the anti-SLAPP motions. Alternatively, in response to
respondent Kruger’s claim that the appeal of the anti-SLAPP order is not cognizable,
appellants seek to challenge the order denying the motion for new trial.
The record shows that appellants did not appeal from the order granting the
anti-SLAPP motions but from the judgment of dismissal that followed later, which they
relied on as the appealable order. We conclude, based on the applicable law that makes
an order granting a motion to strike immediately appealable (§§ 426.16, subd. (i), 904.1,