Sosa v. DIRECTV, Inc.

437 F.3d 923 Rod SOSA; Gary Whittaker; Rodney Bylsma, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. DIRECTV, INC.; Hughes Electronics Corporation; General Motors Corporation; Yarmuth Wilsdon Calfo, PLLC; Greer, Herz & Adams, LLP; Stump, Storey, Callahan & Dietrich, PA; DIRECTV End User Development Group; DIRECTV End User Recovery Project, LLC; Secure Signals International; McGinnis Group International, LLC, Defendants-Appellees. No. 04-55036. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted November 14, 2005. Filed February 15, 2006. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Jeffrey Willens, Esq., Yorba Linda, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Dale H. Oliver, Los Angeles, CA, argued the case for the defendants-appellees. Michael E. Williams and A. Eric Bjorgum, Los Angeles, CA, were on the briefs. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California; A. Howard Matz, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-03-05972-AHM. Before FERNANDEZ and BERZON, Circuit Judges, and OWEN PANNER, * District Judge. BERZON, Circuit Judge. 1 DIRECTV, Inc., et al. ("DIRECTV") sent tens of thousands of demand letters alleging that the recipients had accessed DIRECTV's satellite…