COUNTY INMATE TELEPHONE SERVICE CASES

No. B291341.

48 Cal.App.5th 354 (2020)

COUNTY INMATE TELEPHONE SERVICE CASES.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division One.

April 28, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kaye, McLane, Bednarski & Litt, Barrett S. Litt , Ronald O. Kaye ; Rapkin & Associates, Michael S. Rapkin and Scott B. Rapkin for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Jonathan M. Coupal , Timothy A. Bittle and Laura E. Dougherty for Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Schonbrun Seplow Harris & Hoffman and Catherine Sweetser for Human Rights Defense Center, Public Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, Worth Rises, Prison Law Office, and Impact Fund as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, Raul L. Martinez and Ryan D. Harvey for Defendants and Respondents Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Ventura, Alameda and Santa Clara.

James R. Williams , County Counsel (Santa Clara), and Michael Leon Guerrero , Deputy County Counsel, for Defendant and Respondent County of Santa Clara.

Arias & Lockwood, Christopher D. Lockwood ; Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, John M. Porter and Arthur K. Cunningham for Defendant and Respondent County of Riverside.

Sharon L. Anderson , County Counsel (Contra Costa), and D. Cameron Baker , Deputy County Counsel, for Defendant and Respondent County of Contra Costa.

Wagstaffe, Von Loewenfeldt, Busch & Radwick, Michael Von Loewenfeldt , Frank Busch ; John C. Beiers , County Counsel (San Mateo), and David Silberman , Chief Deputy County Counsel, for Defendant and Respondent County of San Mateo.

Thomas E. Montgomery , County Counsel (San Diego), Joshua Heinlein and Jeffrey P. Michalowski , Deputy County Counsel, for California State Association of Counties and League of California Cities as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

SUMMARY

In this coordinated proceeding, inmates in county jails in nine California counties challenge the exorbitant commissions paid by telecommunications companies to the nine counties under contracts giving the telecommunications companies the exclusive right to provide...

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