Briefs and Comments

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has ordered publication of its recent decision in Jones v. Solgen Construction, LLC(link is external) The previously unpublished decision – which may now be cited – provides guidance to courts and litigants in addressing the growing problem of fraud in door-to-door residential solar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 (PDF file) 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...

In case you missed it -- the Center's amicus brief on behalf of economists was along for the ride at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals last week. At the oral arguments in National Association of Automobile Dealers v. FTC, the judges and advocates repeatedly referenced our brief, which lent an independent economic analysis in support of the FTC's Combatting Auto Retail Scams (...