Briefs and Comments

The Center applauds the California Court of Appeal’s decision this week in People v. Adir International (Curacao), affirming a win at trial for the California Attorney General’s long-running lawsuit against Curacao – a chain of department stores in Southern California and Arizona that has long preyed on low-income Latino immigrants. The Center, along with Public Counsel and Bet Tzedek, filed an amicus ...

An amicus brief filed today in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit says the Administration’s attempt to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is “an unconstitutional power grab” that will inflict enormous damage on ordinary Americans and the U.S. economy if the agency is shuttered. The brief––filed by the Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice at UC Berkeley, Tzedek...

At the urging of the Center on behalf of nine legal services and consumer advocacy organizations, along with the plaintiffs, the California Court of Appeal has ordered publication of its recent decision in Jones v. Solgen Construction, LLC The previously unpublished decision – which may now be cited – provides guidance to courts and litigants in addressing the growing problem of fraud in door-to-door residential solar panel sales.

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The Center and ten other organizations serving low-income consumers filed an amicus brief urging the California Court of Appeal not to import restrictive federal standing law into California’s state courts and instead to reassert California courts’ role as courts of general jurisdiction open to all litigants with a valid cause to assert.

Over the past several decades, federal courts have made it increasingly difficult for potential plaintiffs to...