PIONEER ELECTRONICS v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. S133794.

53 Cal.Rptr.3d 513 (2007)

40 Cal.4th 360

150 P.3d 198

PIONEER ELECTRONICS (USA), INC., Petitioner, v. The SUPERIOR COURT of Los Angeles County, Respondent; Patrick Olmstead, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

January 25, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hughes Hubbard & Reed, William T. Bisset, Charles Avrith, David A. Lombardero and Alicia D. Mew, Los Angeles, for Petitioner.

Sidley Austin, Jeffrey A. Berman, James M. Harris and Steven A. Ellis, Los Angeles, for Employers Group as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

Jocelyn D. Larkin, Brad Seligman, Berkely, and Sarah Varela for Asian Law Caucus, Disability Rights Advocates, Disability Rights and Education Defense Fund, Equal Justice Society, Equal Rights Advocates, The Impact Fund, Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Public Counsel and Western Center on Law and Poverty as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Lange & Koncius, Joseph J.M. Lange, Jeffrey A. Koncius, El Segundo; Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman, Sanford P. Dumain, Michael R. Reese, Ann M. Lipton, Jeff S. Westerman, Sabrina S. Kim, Los Angeles; Robert I. Lax & Associates and Robert I. Lax for Real Party in Interest.

The Sturdevant Law Firm, James C. Sturdevant, San Francisco, Mark T. Johnson and Sylvia Sokol, San Francisco, for Consumer Attorneys of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.

David R. Labahn, Sacramento, for California District Attorneys Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.


CHIN, J.

Purchasers of possibly defective DVD players communicated with the seller, expressing their discontent and relating their identifying information (names, addresses, etc.). We consider here the extent to which California's right to privacy provision (Cal. Const., art. I, § 1) protects these purchasers from having their identifying information disclosed to the plaintiff during civil discovery proceedings in a consumers' rights class action against the...

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