Abeyta

BACKGROUND

18 On October 3, 2022, plaintiff Robert Abeyta, a resident of Oakland, filed this class action 19 lawsuit against defendant DMCG in Alameda County Superior Court. DMCG removed the case to 20 this Court on November 11, 2022. DMCG is a California corporation that operates as a bond agent 21 “throughout the State” and has its headquarters in Riverside, California. Compl. ¶ 2. Abeyta claims 22 that DMCG, doing business as “Bail Hotline Bail Bonds,” did not provide him with written 23 disclosures required under California consumer protection laws when he signed documents to obtain 24 a loan for a non-refundable bail bond premium in order to bail a friend out of jail. Abeyta seeks to 25 represent a class of “[a]ll people who cosigned a bail bond credit agreement from DMCG . . . which 26 did not include the notice described in California Civil Code Section 1799.911 prior to signing, and 27 who (1) owed, were asked to make, or made a payment on or after October 3, 2018, to DMCG . . . and (2) were not a spouse of the person who received release services under the arrangement at the time of cosigning.” Id. ¶ 28. In order to bail his friend out of jail,…