Federal thrift and banking regulators joined the banking industry last week in appealing a California federal district court decision upholding a state law that imposes requirements and prohibitions on the sharing of consumer information among lender affiliates. In a joint amicus brief, the Office of Thrift Supervision, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said that the federal court’s view of FCRA was “flatly