In Kearney v. Salomon Smith Barney, Inc., 137 P.3d 914 (Cal. 2006), the California Supreme Court applied California wiretap law to a company
located in Georgia that routinely recorded business phone calls with its clients in California. California law requires all party consent to record
any telephone calls, while Georgia law requires only one-party consent. Applying California choice-of-law rules, the Court reasoned that the
failure to apply California law would “impair California’s interest in protecting the degree of privacy afforded to California residents by
California law more severely than the application of California law would impair any interests of the State of Georgia.”
But the case isn’t in DC or Florida, it’s in Georgia. And while the courts there have gotten more liberal, they might still be less than enthusiastic about following California’s lead.