Nora Gutierrez v. Dave and Matt Vans, LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
I. BACKGROUND
This is a putative class action brought against D&M for alleged violations of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”), Cal. Penal Code § 631. (See generally Ex. A to Farkas Decl., Doc. 1-1 at 3–24.) Gutierrez alleges that D&MV has engaged in the “practice of (a) secretly wiretapping the private conversations of everyone who communicates through the third-party chat application on https://dmvans.com/ . . . and (b) paying third parties . . . to eavesdrop on such communications in real time in order to ______________________________________________________________________________
CIVIL MINUTES – GENERAL
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
CIVIL MINUTES – GENERAL
Case No. 2:23-cv-02012-JLS-JC Date: May 06, 2023 Title: Nora Gutierrez v. Dave and Matt Vans, LLC
harvest data from those conversations for financial gain.” (Complaint ¶ 1, Doc. 1-1 at 13–23.) Gutierrez seeks statutory damages, injunctive relief, and other appropriate relief for herself and a class comprised of all persons in California who have used the chat feature…