United States Fourth Circuit

In a suit by car buyers against lawyers who obtained the buyers' personal information from car delearships so that the lawyers could identify plaintiffs for a suit against the dealerships under the South Carolina Regulation of Manufacturers, Distributors, and Dealers Act, summary judgment against the buyers is affirmed where their claims fail as a matter of law, because although the lawyers engaged in soliciting for purposes of the federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994 (DPPA), that solicitation was entirely consistent with state law, was integral to, and was inextricably intertwined with the lawyers' permissible use of the buyers' personal information pursuant to the litigation exception to the DPPA.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/04/2012
• Published 04/04/2012

Judges

• Davis

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Philip N. Elbert, Morris Dawes Cooke, Jr.