Corporate
Feb. 25, 2011
Businesses and Plaintiffs Beware: The Defense Perspective on Kwikset
The fight over standing requirements for bringing consumer class actions is not over, defendants still have ammunition. By Daniel K. Slaughter of Stein & Lubin LLP.
As has been noted, the state Supreme Court's recent decision in Kwikset Corp. v. Superior Court, 51 Cal.4th 310 (2011), together with In re Tobacco II Cases, 46 Cal.4th 298 (2009), loosens the standing requirements for bringing a consumer class action under the unfair-competition law (California Business & Professions Code Section 17200) and the fair advertising law (California Business & Professions Code Section 1...
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