Kinder v. Allied Interstate















Filed 8/2/10 Kinder v. Allied Interstate CA4/2











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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF >CALIFORNIA >



FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT



DIVISION TWO






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JAMES M. KINDER, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. ALLIED INTERSTATE, INC., Defendant and Respondent. [AND 74 OTHER CASES.]

E047086 (Super.Ct.No. GIC880543) OPINION

APPEAL
from the Superior Court
of San Diego
County. Ronald L. Styn,
Judge. Affirmed.

David
A. Kay for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Lewis,
Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith, Jeffry A. Miller, Tim J. Vanden Heuval, Matthew
B. Stucky; Manatt Phelps & Phillips, Becky S. Walker and Andrew H. Struve
for Defendants and Respondents Allied Interstate, Inc. et al.

La
Bella & McNamara, Thomas W. McNamara and Daniel M. Benjamin for Defendant
and Respondent Time Warner Cable.

Murchison
& Cumming, Kenneth H. Moreno and Scott J. Loeding for Defendant and
Respondent Evergreen Professional Recovery, Inc.

Ellis,
Coleman, Poirier, La Voie & Steinheimer, Mark E. Ellis and Andrew M.
Steinheimer for Defendant and Respondent
Bay Area Credit Services.

Debbie
P. Kirkpatrick for Defendant and Respondent NCO Financial Systems, Inc.

The
trial court consolidated approximately 165 separate suits filed by plaintiff
James M. Kinder (Kinder) alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1997
(TCPA). (47 U.S.C. § 227 et seq.)^[1] The court segregated the cases into three
groupings. Seventy-five defendants in
the grouping known as â€