Appealability, SLAPP: Defense Appeal Of Fee Award After SLAPP Merits Decided, Claiming More Fees Should Have Been Awarded, Was From A Non-appealable, Interlocutory Order

Appeal Was Dismissed.

               The defense in Ali v. Dignity Health, Case No. B331058 (2d Dist., Div. 5 Dec. 31, 2024) (unpublished) won some aspects of a SLAPP motion and was granted some mandatory fees, but the defense appealed and claimed that the SLAPP motion should have been granted in entirety and more fees awarded.  The fee motion and subsequent order ensued after the SLAPP merits were decided.  The DCA dismissed the appeal, determining that an order awarding or denying SLAPP fees made after determination of the SLAPP merits was a non-appealable, interlocutory order.  (Doe v. Luster, 145 Cal.App.4^th 139, 156 (2005).)