California Court of Appeal

Petition for a writ of mandate seeking to reverse a discovery order in a purported consumer class action is granted in part and denied in part where the trial court did not abuse its discretion in permitting precertification discovery in a class action for the purpose of identifying potential substitute class-action plaintiffs, but a letter to be sent to prospective plaintiffs should be modified to protect their privacy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/13/2006
• Published 03/13/2006

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Cresi, Roman M. Silberfeld and Gregory N. Karasik, Los Angeles, for Petitioner Best Buy Stores, L.P., Mark Boling, in pro. per, for Real Party in Interest.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent.