Vasquez

Real party in interest and appellant Sallie Mae, Inc. (Sallie Mae), appeals from an order awarding plaintiffs and respondents Daniel Vasquez et al. (collectively, plaintiffs) $11,487 in attorney fees and costs incurred after plaintiffs successfully opposed Sallie Mae’s motion to quash a business records subpoena seeking electronically stored information pertaining to student loans made to them by Sallie Mae. We affirm the trial court’s order.

BACKGROUND

The parties

Plaintiffs are 1,034 former students who enrolled in a culinary school owned and/or operated by defendants California School of Culinary Arts, Inc., and Career Education Corporation. In their amended consolidated complaint, plaintiffs allege that defendants defrauded them into enrolling in culinary school by numerous misrepresentations about graduation rates, employment prospects after graduation, and anticipated income levels. Plaintiffs asserted claims for fraud, breach of contract, and violations of the unfair competition law, Consumers Legal Remedies Act (Civ. Code, § 1750 et seq.), and the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act of 1989 (Ed. Code, former § 94300 et seq.).

Sallie Mae…