Legal Question in Business Law in California

No. The Superior Court is not the "highest state court." The petition is asking when the California Supreme Court ("CSC") denied your petition for review. The purpose of this question is to reveal whether your petition is timely. Your time to file it began when the CSC declined to hear your case.

Good luck.

I'm puzzled as to why the Court of Appeal determined that the case was not in its jurisdiction. An appeal is the proper method to obtain review of an anti-SLAPP order granting a special motion to strike (see CCP 425.16, subsection i and CCP 904.1(a)(13). Perhaps this was a "limited civil case," in which situation the appeal should have gone to the appellate division of the Superior Court instead of the Court of Appeal. By the way, although there are strict time limits for filing an appeal, there is none for a petition for a writ, including certiorari, other that a general policy that it should be done as soon as reasonably possible to avoid a defense of laches.

The form described in the question is a pro-per petition for a writ of certiorari from the U.S. Supreme Court. There are also writs of certiorari in the California state courts, which are quite different. They may be what Mr. Whipple has in mind. One difference is that there are very firm time limits for certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court.