Category: Consumer Law  
The UCL Practitioner - March 11, 2007
The June 2004 issue of Mealey's California Section 17200 Report has an interesting article called "The Application of Business & Professions Code §17200 to Securities TransactionsWill
The UCL Practitioner - September 21, 2005
I'm pleased to announce that, effective immediately, The UCL Practitioner has moved to a new home: http://www.uclpractitioner.com. Please update your bookmarks and continue to visit often! No further posts will be added to this site, but t
The UCL Practitioner - September 21, 2005
Today, the Supreme Court denied reivew in McCann v. Lucky Money, Inc., no. S134874. As I reported on
The UCL Practitioner - September 21, 2005
In CPF Agency Corp. v. R&S; Towing Service, ___ Cal.App.4th ___ (Sept. 16, 2005), the plaintiff's UCL claim was predicated on the defendant's alleged violation of Vehicle Code section 22658, subd. (i)(2). The Court of
The UCL Practitioner - September 20, 2005
Since I'm taking a lunch break myself, I thought I'd report that my firm's Wal-Mart case went to trial last week. Opening statements were yesterday. The Washington Post has
The UCL Practitioner - September 20, 2005
In Shappell Industries, Inc. v. Superior Court , ___ Cal.App.4th ___ (Sept. 19, 2005), the Court of Appeal (Second Appellate District, Division Four) addressed an interesting and somewhat abstract question. What
The UCL Practitioner - September 19, 2005
The Supreme Court is showing some interest in reviewing the Court of Appeal's decision in Madrid v. Perot Systems Corp., 130 Cal.App.4th 440 (2005), which addressed the scope of restitutionary relief under t
The UCL Practitioner - September 16, 2005
On Monday, September 12, the Supreme Court extended its time to grant or deny review in Consumer Advocacy Group v. Kintetsu Enterprises, case no. S135587. The Supreme Court now has until October 27
The UCL Practitioner - September 15, 2005
The Petrini opinion appeared on the Court of Appeal's website yesterday afternoon. See this post for more info.
The UCL Practitioner - September 13, 2005
In an opinion issued yesterday, most of which is unpublished, the First Appellate District, Division Five, parted company with its brethren in Division One, and held: "We agree with the reasons articulated in those cases that have concluded that Proposition 64 applies to pending cases because it ...
The UCL Practitioner - September 12, 2005
Reader Jeffery L. Fazio posted this thoughtful analysis as a comment to my August 26th post. I'm re-posting it here in full because I think it is worthy of serious discussion: Ive been doing some thinking about one of the anomalies created by Prop
The UCL Practitioner - September 12, 2005
SCOTUSblog is live-blogging the hearings as we speak (or, I should say, type). That's something I'd love to be able to do for the Mervyn's and Branick arguments next year. Ho
The UCL Practitioner - September 10, 2005
On Thursday, the Third District Court of Appeal issued its eagerly-awaited opinion in Petrini Van & Storage v. Superior Court (no. C
The UCL Practitioner - September 09, 2005
On August 25, the Supreme Court gave itself additional timethrough October 5to decide whether to grant review in McCann v. Lucky Money, Inc., no. S134874. McCann is another case in which t
The UCL Practitioner - September 08, 2005
As I previously reported, on August 19, the Supreme Court gave itself more timeuntil September 23to grant or deny review in