L’Occitane Takes Aim at Zimmerman Reed Over Mass Arbitrations

L’Occitane Inc. asked a federal court Thursday to order Zimmerman Reed LLP to stop “manufacturing frivolous claims” against it under the California Invasion of Privacy Act as part of what it said was an illegal mass-arbitration shakedown scheme.

The cosmetics and home products firm also argued that CIPA should be struck down as unconstitutional because it improperly restrains speech and provides an exemption for communications occurring over public utility networks without providing the same exemption to other modern information-services providers.

L’Occitane filed the lawsuit after Zimmerman Reed notified it in November 2023 that it had begun filing demands for arbitration ...