United States Ninth Circuit

Employees may sue employers for per se violations of state invasion of privacy law regardless of the terms of the collective bargaining agreements.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/18/2000
• Decided 06/15/2001
• Published 06/15/2001

Judges

• Before:  SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, PREGERSON, REINHARDT, O'SCANNLAIN, TASHIMA, THOMAS, McKEOWN, FISHER, GOULD, PAEZ and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jay Cordell Hormone,Malena R. Leclair and Susan Ghormley, Horton, Barbaro & Reilly, Santa Ana, California, for plaintiffs-appellants Cramer et al., and Matthew L. Taylor and Michael D. Myers, Myers, Taylor & Siegel, Claremont, California, for plaintiffs-appellants Alfaro et al. and Hoffman et al.


• For Appellees:
  
• Louise Ann Fernandez, Robert E. Mangels, Marc Marmaro, and Neil O. Andrus, Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, Los Angeles, California, and William A. Norris and Edward P. Lazarus, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Los Angeles, California, for the defendants-appellees.