In Moriarty v. Laramar Management Corp. (2014) 224 Cal.App.4th 125, the appellate court affirmed the trial court's denial of the defendant's anti-SLAPP motion. Moriarty involved somewhat similar facts because the current litigation potentially related to an earlier unlawful detainer case but the court found that the defendant could not sufficiently establish that the current litigation was based on prior litigation. (Id. at pp.133-136.) The appellate court reasoned that, even though the previous legal action triggered the plaintiff's current complaint, it did not cause the complaint to be filed. (Id. at p. 136.)