Christine
Peek

• State Bar of California
• U.S. District Court, Northern, Eastern, and Southern Districts of California
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
• U.S. Supreme Court

Education

• J.D., Santa Clara University School of Law
• B.A., San Jose State University
• Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) certification, International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)

Representative Matters

• Obtained decertification of a consumer class action against a major Silicon Valley technology company under California’s Consumers Legal Remedies Act and Unfair Competition Law, and successfully defended the decertification on appeal.
• Successfully defended on appeal a complete dismissal of alleged business torts against several Chinese companies.
• Tried a challenge to a local regulatory fee under the California Constitution (Proposition 26), and after an initial adverse result, obtained a reversal on appeal.
• Prevailed at trial on a procedural due process challenge to the federal government’s placement of the client on various terrorist watchlists and, after a Ninth Circuit appeal and en banc review, obtained reversal of a district court order severely limiting attorneys’ fees, leading to a favorable settlement of the fee dispute.
• Obtained California Supreme Court review and briefed the merits of a California Public Records Act dispute, leading to a landmark opinion that when public employees use personal accounts to communicate about public business, the writings may be subject to disclosure as public records, and on remand, a fee award.

Reported Cases

• County of Santa Clara v. Superior Court (Naymark) (2009) 171 Cal.App.4th 119.
• Ibrahim v. U.S. Dep’t of Homeland Sec., 669 F.3d 983 (9th Cir. 2012).
• Ibrahim v. U.S. Dep’t of Homeland Sec., 62 F. Supp. 3d 909 (N.D. Cal. 2014).
• City of San Jose v. Superior Court (Smith) (2017) 2 Cal.5th 608.
• Ibrahim v. U.S. Dep’t of Homeland Sec., 912 F.3d 1147 (9th Cir. 2019).
• Johnson v. City of San Jose, 591 F. Supp. 3d 649 (N.D. Cal. 2022).
• Sutter’s Place, Inc. v. City of San Jose (2024) 104 Cal.App.5th 855.

Awards

• John Gothberg Award for Meritorious Service to SPJ NorCal, Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter, 2020
• Silicon Valley “Women of Influence,” Silicon Valley Business Journal, 2018
• Top 40 Lawyers Under 40, Daily Journal, 2016
• California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) Award, Civil Rights, 2015
• Top 40 Under 40, Silicon Valley Business Journal, 2015