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P0746 A petition for an injunction is a cause of action to which the SLAPP statute may apply, but an application for temporary restraining order is not; allegations that a landlord engages in a pattern of wrongfully evicting and improperly retaining the security deposits of tenants and refusing to make needed repairs to rental properties involves a public issue, because such conduct would have an effect on the community, stability of the rental market, and potential urban blight; an injunction against civil harassment is available only to a victim of unlawful violence, a credible threat of violence, or a knowing and willful course of seriously annoying conduct with no legitimate purpose, and is therefore not available to a landlord to prevent further picketing by a group seeking to change his conduct toward tenants and engage members of his church congregation in a dialog to help accomplish this end.CitationTHOMAS v QUINTERO (Harassment Injunction) 126 CA4 635 [See: CCP 527.6, 425.16; Diamond View v Herz 180 CA3 612; Schraer v Berkeley 207 CA3 719; Weinberg v Feisel 110 CA4 1122, P/AT 9/03; Russell v Douvan 112 CA4 399, P/AT 11/04]
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