Kearney v. Salomon Smith Barney, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• applying choice of law principles to case in which Georgia telephone calls caused injury in California
• describing the comparative impairment process as “an accommodation of conflicting state policies, attempting, to the extent practicable, to achieve the maximum attainment of underlying purpose by all governmental entities”
• noting that “[a] business that adequately advises all parties to a telephone call, at the outset of the conversation, of its intent to record the call would not violate the provision” but not holding that such advisement is required to the exclusion of all other forms of notification
• In determining whether a civil action may proceed, “there is no need to determine whether penal sanctions properly could or should be imposed under these circumstances.”
• “First, the court determines whether the relevant law of each of the potentially affected jurisdictions with regard to the particular issue in question is the same or different.”
• “[T]he objective of protecting individuals in California from the secret recording of confidential communications by or at the behest of another party to the communication was one of the principal purposes underlying the 1967 invasion-of-privacy enactment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).