California appellate courts have split on the question of whether overlap between two consumer protection statutes renders one of them impermissibly vague; the California Supreme Court will soon decide that question, of keen interest to individuals, the state, and agencies that purvey consumer background information, as well parties - like prospective employers and landlords - reliant on those agencies. Implicated also are other areas of law, e.g. labor and environmental, where statutory overlap is not infrequent.

We'll hear a range of views from Hunter Pyle (Hunter Pyle Law), Catha Worthman (Feinberg Jackson Worthman & Wasow), Ted Mermin (Public Good Law Center; Berkeley Ctr. for Consumer Law and Economic Justice), and Montserrat Miller (Arnall Golden Gregory LLP).