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With Tobacco Case, a Side of Prop 64

Callaw Reporter Pamela Pressley, litigation director for the Santa Monica-based FTCR, insists voters were deceived by major corporations that are now trying to pervert the initiative…

Phillip Morris Uses Prop 64 To Sink Suit Accusing Company of Lying to Consumers, Marketing Cigarettes to Kids

Tobacco Giant Gave $200K to Prop 64

Prop 64 Ends Animal Cruelty Lawsuit

Court Says Citizens Can't Stop Inhumane Treatment Of Animals Under Prop 64

CA Supreme Court Applies Prop 64 To Legitimate Cases;

Initiative Sponsors Falsely Claimed Measure Would Not Effect Consumer, Environmental, Public Interest Cases

125 Consumer Protection Cases Challenged Using Prop. 64 Reveal Corporate Attack on Consumer Rights

Citing Prop. 64, Firms Seek to Kill Lawsuits;

At least a dozen unfair-competition cases that existed before the measure's passage have come under challenge.Los Angeles Times Opponents of Proposition 64 -- mainly environmental and…

Businesses hail Prop. 64 victory;

Opponents call it a victory for polluters and scofflaws.Sacramento Bee Opponents of Proposition 64 said the initiative really benefits big businesses that were flouting the law.

Big Business Lied To Voters;

Corporations Use Prop 64 to Attack Pending Consumer Protection Suits Big corporations charged with violating patients' medical privacy, marketing alcohol to minors and overcharging wireless phone…

Unfair Competition

Big Business Succeeds in Gutting California's Landmark Consumer Protection Law Multinational Monitor Vol.26 March/April California's Unfair Competition Law was the strongest consumer protection law of its…

Unfair Competition; Big Business Succeeds in Gutting California’s Landmark Consumer Protection Law

California's Unfair Competition Law was the strongest consumer protection law of its kind in the United States when Proposition 64 drastically scaled it back this past…

Small, big business team up again;

Government regulations held back in elections through grass roots, moneyThe San Francisco Chronicle California businesses staved off government regulation through ballot initiatives in this month's election…

2024-07-11 Consumer Watchdog's Response to Industry Comments Re Request for Finding of Eligibility

…P.3d 20 (counsel for amicus curiae Consumer Watchdog) – holding that Prop 64 standing requirements apply only to named plaintiffs and not unnamed putative class members. • Karnan v. Safeco Ins. Co. of Am.…

2022 06 File Stamped Copy Amicus Brief

…I. UCL Standing After Proposition 64 ................................................. 15 A. UCL Standing Requires a Personal Economic Injury Caused by Defendant…

Court to decide when lawsuit limit began

The San Francisco Chronicle Consumer advocates believe they hold a trump card: an e-mail sent in September from the official Prop. 64 campaign, saying the measure…

2023-10-11 CORRECTED Mercury NC Pet. to Intervene

…P.3d 20 (counsel for amicus curiae Consumer Watchdog) – holding that Prop 64 standing requirements apply only to named plaintiffs and not unnamed putative class members. • Karnan v. Safeco Ins. Co. of Am.…