California Court of Appeal

When issuing a precertification communication to members of a putative class, the court must take reasonable steps to assure that consumers receive actual notice of their right to grant or withhold consent of the release of personal information, and that consent for such release must be by the consumer's positive act, rather than by mere failure to respond.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/06/2005
• Published 04/06/2005

Judges

• EPSTEIN, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Hughes Hubbard & Reed, William T. Bisset, Charles Avrith, and Alicia D. Mew, Los Angeles, for Petitioner., Lange & Koncius, Joseph J.M. Lange, El Segundo, Jeffrey A. Koncius, Los Angeles;  Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman, Sanford P. Dumain, Michael R. Reese;  Robert I. Lax & Associates and Robert I. Lax for Real Party in Interest.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent.