Viola

Filed 10/28/22 Viola v. Caruso Management CA2/

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION FOUR

GINA VIOLA et al., B323596

Plaintiffs and Respondents, (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. 22STCV26403) v.

CARUSO MANAGEMENT

COMPANY LTD. et al.,

Defendants and Appellants.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Teresa A. Beaudet, Judge. Reversed. Altshuler Berzon, Stacey Leyton and Juhyung Harold Lee; Law Office of Shakeer Rahman and Shakeer Rahman; Law Office of Matthew Strugar and Matthew Strugar for Plaintiffs and Respondents. Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni, Sean P. Welch, David J. Lazarus, and Arthur G. Scotland; Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Kathleen M. Sullivan and Derek L. Shaffer for Defendants and Appellants.

THE COURT:

In this expedited appeal, in the midst of Los Angeles’s mayoral election, we reverse a preliminary injunction that would have required The Grove shopping mall—owned by mayoral candidate Rick Caruso—to allow some of Caruso’s detractors to protest his candidacy there. The facts, law, and procedural posture of the case…