Comments on: s. 17200 (and Proposition 64) roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2004/11/s-17200-and-proposition-64-roundup/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:26:44 +0000 hourly 1 By: March 31 roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2004/11/s-17200-and-proposition-64-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-43878 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:26:44 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=1563#comment-43878 […] After nine years, the notorious Bill Lerach California-unfair-competition-law suit against Kwikset (over several screws from Taiwan in a lock marked “Made in America”) finally winds down [California Civil Justice, earlier] […]

]]> By: Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/2004/11/s-17200-and-proposition-64-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-936 Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:11:40 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=1563#comment-936 Calif. court OKs countersuit in “shakedown” case

Just over a year ago, following numerous scandals about law firms’ filing of mass shakedown suits based on California’s s. 17200 unfair-competition law (UCL), the state’s voters curtailed somewhat the law’s extortive potential by requiring…

]]> By: Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/2004/11/s-17200-and-proposition-64-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-935 Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:06:55 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=1563#comment-935 California’s Proposition 79

As CoyoteBlog (Oct. 18) notes, this ballot initiative on drug prices contains a sneaky, little-discussed provision that will empower trial lawyers to file bounty-hunting suits against pharmaceutical companies if the companies charge prices “that lead…

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