BREAZEALE v. VICTIM SERVICES, INC.

Nos. 15-16549 16-16495.

878 F.3d 759 (2017)

Kevin BREAZEALE; Karen Solberg; Kevin Hiep Vu; Nancy Morin; Narisha Bonakdar, on their own behalf and on behalf of others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. VICTIM SERVICES, INC., DBA CorrectiveSolutions; National Corrective Group, Inc., DBA CorrectiveSolutions; Mats Jonsson, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 27, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sean M. Hardy (argued) and Michael A. Taitelman , Freedman & Taitelman LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendants-Appellants.

Deepak Gupta (argued) and Matthew W.H. Wessler , Gupta Wessler PLLC, Washington, D.C.; Paul Arons , Law Offices of Paul Arons, Friday Harbor, Washington; Beth E. Terrell and Blythe Chandler , Terrell Marshall Law Group PLLC, Seattle, Washington; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

R. Orion Danjuma , Rachel Goodman , Nusrat J. Choudhury , and Dennis D. Parker , New York, New York, as and for Amicus Curiae American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc.

Jennifer D. Bennett and Brian Hardingham , Public Justice P.C., Oakland, California; David Seligman , Towards Justice, Denver, Colorado; for Amici Curiae Public Justice, The National Consumer Law Center, Towards Justice, and Professors of Arbitration, Consumer, and Contract Law.

Before: Mary M. Schroeder and Richard C. Tallman, Circuit Judges, and Robert H. Whaley, District Judge.


OPINION

Plaintiffs are individuals who are subject to potential prosecution for violations of California's bad check statute, which criminalizes the writing of bad checks with intent to defraud. The Defendants, Victim Services and related companies (collectively, "VSI"), pursuant to an agreement with the District...

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