LiMandri & Jonna SLAPPs New Case out of Court The day after Christmas 2017, a Catholic cleric filed suit against LiMandri & Jonna’s client, a local Catholic church. The cleric alleged breach of contract with respect to loans he allegedly made to the church, loss of retirement benefits, and defamation after the church hierarchs published letters informing their parishioners that the cleric could no longer validly administer the sacraments in San Diego. LiMandri & Jonna immediately filed an anti-SLAPP special motion to strike the defamation claim and moved to dismiss the retirement benefits claim—based on well settled…

LiMandri & Jonna Saves Cherished San Diego Historical Institution In late 2017, two founders of the San Diego Chinese Historical Society and Museum, a nonprofit that runs the Chinese museum located on Third Avenue in downtown San Diego, filed a derivative action to save the museum after they began discovering potential mismanagement by the current board of directors. The two founders discovered that board members were continuing to sit on the board long past the three term limit, that important issues had not been put to a general membership vote for many years, that the board was…

LiMandri & Jonna LLP is pleased to announce a major victory on behalf of clients in an insurance dispute. In November 2017, after a 5-week bench trial in San Diego Superior Court, LiMandri & Jonna LLP prevailed in litigation designed to save the Neighborhood Market Association, a trade association of local convenience and liquor stores, from gross mismanagement. The case was brought by the founders of the NMA and sought to hold its prior leaders accountable for breaches of fiduciary duty. Because it was a “derivative suit” brought on behalf of all NMA members, the Court awarded…