California Court of Appeal

In class action alleging violations of the Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act and the Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act regarding tenant screening reports used to assess rental applicants, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed as the ICRAA is unconstitutionally vague as applied to tenant screening reports containing unlawful detainer information. Moreover, defendant could not obtain class certification after the court decided the merits of plaintiff's individual claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/03/2007
• Published 12/03/2007

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lakeshore Law Center and Jeffrey Wilens, Yorba Linda;  Law Offices of Jeffrey P. Spencer and Jeffrey Spencer, San Clemente, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Irell & Manella, Gregory R. Smith, Marc S. Maister, Garland A. Kelley, Los Angeles, and Regine Rutherfurd, for Defendant and Appellant., Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Edwin V. Woodsome, William W. Oxley and Khai LeQuang, Los Angeles;  Hodel Briggs Winter, Irvine, Karla J. Kraft and Neyha G. Rajan;  Irell & Manella, Marc S. Maister, Garland A. Kelley and Regine Rutherfurd, Newport Beach;  Kimball, Tirey & St. John and Jeffrey Garland, San Diego;  Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith and Thomas G. Oesterrich;  Soltman, Levitt & Flaherty and Mitchell S. Brachman, Wetlake Village;  Green & Hall, Robert L. Green and Michael J. Pepek, Santa Ana;  Lynch Gilardi & Grummer, James Parton III and Francis D. Conway, San Francisco, for The Irvine Company Apartment Communities, Inc., Shea Properties Management Company, Inc., Fairfield Properties, L.P., Archstone-Smith Trust, Far West Management Corporation, VPM Management, Inc., Apartment Investment and Management Company, FPI Management, Inc., Stratus Real Estate, Inc., Western National Property Management, and Prometheus Real Estate Group, Inc., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.