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Roundtable-Product Liability

Jul. 1, 2009

Product Liability

In May, the state Supreme Court's ruling In re Tobacco II Cases, 93 Cal.Rptr.3d 559 (2009), set off a host of controversies over class certification, California's Unfair Competition Law (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 17200-17210), and Proposition 64 (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17203), which had changed the standing requirements for consumer class actions in 2005.

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