Said v. Magdy , 2024 COA 109 ( 2024 )


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    <div>SUMMARY </div>
    <div>October 3, 2024 </div>
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    2024COA109
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    <div>No. 24CA0451, <span>Said v. Magdy</span> <span>—</span> No. 24CA0451, <span>Said v. Magdy</span> </div>
    <div>—<span> Courts and Court Procedure </span>—<span> Action Involving Exercise of </span>
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    <div>Constitutional Rights <span>—</span> Anti-SLAPP <span>—</span> Special Motion to </div>
    <div>Dismiss; Civil Procedure <span>—</span> Motion for Reconsideration <span>—</span> </div>
    <div>Motions for Post-Trial Relief; Appeals <span>—</span> Time for Filing Notice<span></span> </div>
    <div>of Appeal <span>—</span> Tolling </div>
    <div>A division of the court of appeals holds that, if timely <span></span>filed, a </div>
    <div>motion for reconsideration of an order denying a special moti<span></span>on to </div>
    <div>dismiss under the anti-SLAPP statute, section 13-<span>20</span>-1101, C.R.S. </div>
    <div>2024, is properly construed as a C.R.C.P. 59 motion <span></span>that tolls the </div>
    <div>time for filing a notice of appeal because the trial court’s o<span></span>rder, </div>
    <div>though not final, is nevertheless appealable as required by C.R.C.P. </div>
    <div>54, 58, and 59. </div>
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    <div>COLORADO COURT OF APPEALS                                                <span>
    2024COA109
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    <div>Court of Appeals No. 24CA0451 </div>
    <div>Arapahoe County District Court No. 23CV31428 </div>
    <div>Honorable Thomas W. Henderson, Judge </div>
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    <div>Said M. Said, </div>
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    <div>Plaintiff-Appellee, </div>
    <div> </div>
    <div>v. </div>
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    <div>Mohamed Magdy, M.D., </div>
    <div> </div>
    <div>Defendant-Appellant. </div>
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    <div>MOTION DENIED </div>
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    <div>Division A </div>
    <div>O<span>rder</span><span> by JUDGE HARRIS </span>
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    <div>Schutz and <span>Lum, JJ., concur</span> </div>
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    <div>Announced October 3, 2024 </div>
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    <div>Conduit Law, <span>LLC,</span> <span>Elliot</span> A. Singer, Denver, Colorado, for Plaintiff-Appellee </div>
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    <div>The Paul Wilkinson Law Firm <span>LLC, </span>Nelson Boyle, Denver, Colorado, for </div>
    <div>Defendant-Appellant </div>
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    <div>1 </div>
    <div>¶ 1<span> </span><span>Section 13-<span>20</span>-1101, C.R.S. 2024, colloquially known as the </span>
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    <div>anti-<span>SLAPP statute (“SLAPP” is an acronym for “strategic laws<span></span>uit </span>
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    <div>against public participation,<span>”</span> <span>Salazar v. Pub. Tr. Inst.</span>, 2022 CO<span></span>A </div>
    <div>109M, ¶ 1 n.1), requires early dismissal of any claim arising from </div>
    <div>conduct protected by the First Amendment that involves a p<span></span>ublic </div>
    <div>issue, unless the plaintiff establishes a reasonable likelihood of </div>
    <div>prevailing on the claim.  § 13-<span>20</span>-1101(3)(a).  An order granting or </div>
    <div>denying <span>a statutory “special motion to dismiss” </span>is immediately </div>
    <div>appealable to the court of appeals.  § 13-<span>20</span><span>-1101(7)</span><span>; </span><span>see also</span> § 13-</div>
    <div>4-102.2, C.R.S. 2024.<span>  </span>The notice of appeal must be filed within<span></span> </div>
    <div>forty-nine days after entry of the order <span>on</span> the special motion t<span></span>o </div>
    <div>dismiss.  <span>See </span>C.A.R. 4(a)(1). </div>
    <div>¶ 2<span> </span><span>As a preliminary jurisdictional matter, we must resolve </span>
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    <div>whether a motion for reconsideration of <span>an</span> order denying a special </div>
    <div>motion to dismiss, which did not cite either C.R.C.P. 59 or C.R.C.<span></span>P. </div>
    <div>121, section 1-<span>15</span>(11), toll<span>ed</span> the time for filing a notice of appeal.<span>    </span> </div>
    <div>¶ 3<span> </span><span>We conclude that the motion for reconsideration is properly </span>
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    <div>construed as a Rule 59 motion that tolls the deadline for filing a </div>
    <div>notice of appeal under the anti-SLAPP statute<span>.  </span>And because the </div>
    <div>notice of appeal was filed within forty-nine days after entry of <span></span>the </div>
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    <div>2 </div>
    <div>order denying the motion for reconsideration, the notice of appeal </div>
    <div>was timely<span>. </span> Accordingly, we deny the motion to dismiss this ap<span></span>peal. </div>
    <div>I.<span> <span>Background  <span>  </span> </span></span>
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    <div>¶ 4<span> </span><span>Plaintiff, Said M. Said, filed <span>a </span>defamation action against his </span>
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    <div>wife’s ex<span>-husband, defendant, Mohamed Magdy, alleging that </span>
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    <div>Magdy had falsely accused him of committing criminal con<span></span>duct.  </div>
    <div>Magdy denied the allegations and filed a special motion to dismiss </div>
    <div>the complaint under section <span>13</span><span>-<span>20</span>-1101</span><span>.  </span>The district court denied </div>
    <div>the motion on December 29, 2023<span>.  </span>Fourteen days later, Magdy filed </div>
    <div>a motion for reconsideration.  The district court denied that motion, </div>
    <div>too, and thirty days later, on March 20, 2024, Magdy filed a notice </div>
    <div>of appeal in this court, seeking review of the order denying his </div>
    <div>special motion to dismiss. </div>
    <div>¶ 5<span> </span><span>Said moves to dismiss the appeal as untimely, arguing that </span>
    </div>
    <div>the notice of appeal was not filed within forty-nine days of the </div>
    <div>denial of the motion to dismiss. </div>
    <div>¶ 6<span> </span><span>In response, Magdy argues that the motion for reconsideration </span>
    </div>
    <div>was effectively a Rule 59 motion that tolled the time for filing <span></span>the </div>
    <div>notice of appeal.  And, he asserts, because the notice was filed </div>
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    <div>3 </div>
    <div>within forty-nine days of the order denying his motion for </div>
    <div>reconsideration, it was timely.<span>  </span> </div>
    <div>¶ 7<span> </span><span>Alternatively<span>, <span>Magdy argues that even if the notice was </span></span></span>
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    <div>untimely, the late filing was attributable to excusable neglect, and, </div>
    <div>therefore, we should accept the notice out of time.  <span>See</span> C.A.R. </div>
    <div>4(a)(4) (“U<span>pon a showing of excusable neglect, the appellate c<span></span>ourt </span>
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    <div>may extend the time to file the notice of appeal for a period not <span></span>to </div>
    <div>exceed 35 days . . . .<span>”</span><span>).</span> </div>
    <div>II.<span> <span>Analysis </span></span>
    </div>
    <div>¶ 8<span> </span><span>As noted, subject to an exception inapplicable here, a notice of </span>
    </div>
    <div>appeal in a civil case must be filed “within 49 days after entry of <span></span>the </div>
    <div>judgment, decree, or order being appealed.”  <span>C.A.R. 4(a)(1).  <span>But</span> <span>as </span></span>
    </div>
    <div>Said acknowledges, a timely filed Rule 59 motion (i.e., one f<span></span>iled </div>
    <div>within fourteen days of the order or judgment) tolls the deadline for </div>
    <div>filing a notice of appeal.  <span>See <span>C.A.R. 4(a)(4) (“</span></span>The running of the <span></span>time </div>
    <div>for filing a notice of appeal is terminated as to all parties w<span></span>hen any </div>
    <div>party timely files a motion in the lower court pursuant t<span></span>o C.R.C.P. </div>
    <div>59<span>” and recommences on entry of a timely order disp<span></span>osing of the </span>
    </div>
    <div>motion or the expiration of the time for ruling on the motion <span></span>under </div>
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    <div>4 </div>
    <div>C.R.C.P. 59(j).); C.R.C.P. 59(j) (after sixty-three days of its filin<span></span>g, any </div>
    <div>post-trial motion that has not been decided is deemed denied). </div>
    <div>¶ 9<span> </span><span>Said argues, though, <span>that Magdy’s motion for reconsideration</span><span>, </span></span>
    </div>
    <div>while <span>filed within fourteen days of the court’s order</span> denying the </div>
    <div>motion to dismiss, cannot properly be construed as a Rule 59 </div>
    <div>motion.  <span>According to Said, Rule 59 applies only to “post</span><span>-</span><span>trial” </span>
    </div>
    <div>motions for relief from a final judgment, and here, b<span></span>ecause no trial </div>
    <div>has yet occurred, the order is nonfinal and therefore not subject to </div>
    <div>a <span>Rule 59 motion.  We disagree.   </span>
    </div>
    <div>¶ 10<span> </span><span>As an initial matter, our case law makes clear that a motion </span>
    </div>
    <div>for reconsideration can qualify as a Rule 59 motion even if <span>it</span> does </div>
    <div>not cite Rule 59, <span>Cuevas v. Pub. Serv. Co. of Colo.</span>, 
    2023 COA 64M
    , </div>
    <div>¶ <span>13 (“[M]otions to reconsider need not cite or reference C.R.C.<span></span>P. 59 </span>
    </div>
    <div>to be recognized as falling within its purview.”) (<span>cert. granted on </span>
    </div>
    <div>other grounds<span> July 1, 2024), and even if no trial is held<span>, </span></span><span>see, e.g.<span>, </span></span>
    </div>
    <div>Spiremedia Inc. v. Wozniak<span>, 
    2020 COA 10
    , ¶ 18 (concluding that <span>a </span></span>
    </div>
    <div>“motion to reconsider” <span>an order dismissing a case without prej<span></span>udice </span>
    </div>
    <div>was a Rule 59 motion); <span>Bowlen v. Fed. Deposit Ins. Corp.</span>, 815 P.2<span></span>d </div>
    <div>1013, 1015 (Colo. App. 1991) (concluding that a motion to </div>
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    <div>5 </div>
    <div>reconsider an order granting summary judgment was a Rule <span></span>59 </div>
    <div>motion).  </div>
    <div>¶ 11<span> </span><span>And contrary to <span>Said’s </span>position, we conclude that Rule <span>59 </span></span>
    </div>
    <div>applies to motions seeking relief from orders that<span>, while not “final” </span>
    </div>
    <div>in the sense that they resolve all claims as to all parties<span>, </span><span>see Wilson </span>
    </div>
    <div>v. Kennedy<span>, 
    2020 COA 122
    , ¶ 7 (explaining finality of<span></span> judgments), </span>
    </div>
    <div>are nevertheless appealable pursuant to <span>a </span>statute or rule<span>.  </span> </div>
    <div>¶ 12<span> </span><span>Rule 59(a) provides<span>, </span>in relevant part, <span>that “[w]ithin 14 days of </span></span>
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    <div>entry of judgment as provided in C.R.C.P. 58 . . . <span></span>a party may move </div>
    <div>for post-<span>trial relief.”  </span>Thus, the rule authorizes a post-trial motion </div>
    <div>whe<span>never <span>a </span><span>“judgment” is entered </span>under Rule 58.  <span>A </span><span>“judgment” </span>for </span>
    </div>
    <div>purposes of <span>Rule 58 “includes an appealable decree or or<span></span>der as set </span>
    </div>
    <div>forth in C.R.C.P. 54(a).<span>”</span><span>  </span>Rule 54(a), in turn, <span>defines a “judgment” </span>to </div>
    <div>include <span>“a decree and order to or from which an appeal lies.”  </span> </div>
    <div>¶ 13<span> </span><span>So a <span>“judgment” </span>need not be <span>“final” to be subject to a post</span>-trial </span>
    </div>
    <div>motion.  Instead, Rules 54, 58, and 59 require that an order or </div>
    <div>judgment <span>be</span> <span>“appealable<span>.”</span></span><span>  </span>And while finality is generally a </div>
    <div>prerequisite to appealability, <span>see Ditirro v. Sando</span>, 
    2022 COA 94
    , </div>
    <div>¶ 24, <span>th</span>e rule is subject to various exceptions<span>, </span><span>see, e.g.</span>, § 13-<span>22</span>-</div>
    <div>228(1)(a)-(b), C.R.S. 2024 (authorizing an appeal of an order </div>
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    <div>6 </div>
    <div>denying a motion to compel arbitration or an order g<span></span>ranting a </div>
    <div>motion to stay arbitration); § 24-<span>10</span>-108, C.R.S. 2024 (authorizing </div>
    <div>an appeal of <span>an order denying a public entity’s motion t<span></span>o dismiss </span>
    </div>
    <div>based on sovereign immunity); C.A.R. 1(a)(3) (authori<span></span>zing an appeal </div>
    <div>of an order granting or denying a temporary injunction); <span>Feigin v. </span>
    </div>
    <div>Alexa Grp., Ltd.<span>, 
    19 P.3d 23
    , 26 (Colo. 2001) (authori<span></span>zing an appeal </span>
    </div>
    <div>of an order denying a motion to intervene as a matter of right <span></span>under </div>
    <div>C.R.C.P. 24(a)).</div>
    </div>
    <div><div>1</div></div>
    <div>
    <div>  <span>Section <span>13</span><span>-<span>20</span></span>-1101(7) creates such an exception </span>
    </div>
    <div>in this case, allowing an appeal from an otherwise nonfinal <span></span>order </div>
    <div>denying a special motion to dismiss. </div>
    <div>¶ 14<span> </span><span>Moreover, the relief requested in Magdy<span>’s </span>motion for </span>
    </div>
    <div>reconsideration <span>“</span>fits squarely within<span>”</span> Rule 59.  <span>Spiremedia</span><span>, </span>¶ 18<span>.  </span>
    </div>
    <div>The motion sought amendment of the <span>district court’s</span> findings and </div>
    <div>of the judgment.  <span>See</span> C.R.C.P. 59(a)(3), (4).<span>  </span> </div>
    <div>¶ 15<span> </span><span>For these reasons, we disagree that the motion for </span>
    </div>
    <div>reconsideration constituted a motion under C.R.C.P. 121, section </div>
    <div> </div>
    </div>
    <div><div>1</div></div>
    <div>
    <div> <span>In</span> <span>Przekurat v. Torres</span>, 
    2016 COA 177
    , ¶ 53, <span>aff’d</span><span>, </span>
    2018 CO 69
    , the </div>
    <div>division determined that a C.R.C.P. 59 motion may be filed <span></span>only in </div>
    <div>response to a “final order or judgment, not a non<span>-final or </span>
    </div>
    <div>interlocutory order or judgment.”<span>  </span>But we understand the division’s </div>
    <div>statement, when read in context, to mean that Rule 59 applies <span></span>only </div>
    <div>to appealable orders.    <span>   </span> </div>
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    <div>1-15(11), which does not toll the time for filing a notice of <span></span>appeal.<span>  </span>
    </div>
    <div>Rule 121, section 1-15(11) applies to <span>“[m]otions to reconsider </span>
    </div>
    <div>interlocutory orders of the court . . . other than those <span></span>governed by </div>
    <div>C.R.C.P. 59 or 60.”  <span>Because Magdy sought relief from an </span>
    </div>
    <div>appealable<span> interlocutory order, the motion to reconsider was </span>
    </div>
    <div>properly “governed by C.R.C.P. 59<span>.</span><span>”</span><span>  <span>Id. </span></span>
    </div>
    <div>III.<span> <span>Disposition </span></span>
    </div>
    <div>¶ 16<span> </span><span>The motion to dismiss the appeal is denied.</span>
    </div>
    </div>
    <div><div>2</div></div>
    <div>
    <div>  <span> </span>
    </div>
    <div>JUDGE SCHUTZ and JUDGE <span>LUM</span> concur.<span>  </span> </div>
    <div> </div>
    </div>
    <div><div>2</div></div>
    <div>
    <div> <span>In light of our disposition, we need not consider Magdy’s </span>
    </div>
    <div>alternative request that we extend the time for filing the <span></span>notice of </div>
    <div>appeal based on excusable neglect.  </div>
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Document Info

Docket Number: 24CA0451

Citation Numbers: 2024 COA 109

Filed Date: 10/3/2024

Precedential Status: Precedential

Modified Date: 10/13/2024