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New California Appellate Decision Makes Class Certification More Difficult for Unauthorized Customer Call Recording Claims Under California Penal Code Section 632
By Robert B. Milligan and Christina F. Jackson
Plaintiffs’ attorneys have increasingly filed consumer class actions in California seeking to apply the state’s privacy laws to routine communications between businesses and their customers. If a company records or monitors inbound or outbound telephone calls with customers for calls made to or received by someone located
Court Rules In Favor Of Restaurant, Finding That New York City Patrons Were Not Deceived By A Disclosed Gratuity Or By The Omission Of Beverage Prices From The Menu
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Gina R. Merrill
A customer filed a class action lawsuit this past year against the owner of several well-known restaurants in Manhattan based on two novel theories. First, he alleged that any restaurant that added an “automatic” gratuity to the bill ‒ even when that gratuity was plainly disclosed