California Court of Appeal

In a suit alleging violations of the unfair competition law (UCL) and false claims act (FCA), judgment in favor of plaintiff is reversed where the recent approval of Proposition 64, which amends the UCL and FCA, eliminated statutory authority for plaintiff to maintain the action.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/10/2005
• Published 02/10/2005

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, Pamela M. Parker, Kevin Green; Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, Jonathan W. Cuneo, Michael G. Lenett;  Soltan and Associates and Venus, for Plaintiff and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Richard M. Frank, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Herschel T. Elkins, Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Reiter and Benjamin G. Diehl, Deputy Attorneys General, for California Attorney General as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jones, Bell, Abbott, Fleming & Fitzgerald, Michael J. Abbott, Fredrick A. Rafeedie and William M. Turner, Los Angeles, for Defendants and Appellants and for Amicus Curiae Leatherman Tool Group, Inc. on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.