SACRAMENTO — A measure to codify a more expansive definition of California’s Consumer Legal Remedies Act barely passed out of the state Senate Wednesday and now faces a more perilous future in the Assembly.
The CLRA, a favored tool in lawsuits targeting faulty personal electronics, has been narrowed in scope by recent state court interpretations, plaintiffs lawyers say. Senate Bill 1188, backed by the Consumer Attorneys of California, would make clear that plaintiffs do not have to demonstrate that a product’s concealed flaw poses a health or safety risk to be actionable under the 44-year-old CLRA.
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