Los Angeles Times
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/sep/15/business/fi-hp15
Because no California law specifically bans pretexting to obtain phone records, Lockyer’s office is trying to cobble together a criminal case from four provisions of the state penal code, each of which designed with other crimes in mind.
“There’s a mix of halfway laws on the subject,” said Chris Hoofnagle, a privacy law expert at UC Berkeley School of Law.