California Court of Appeal

In a suit brought by several district attorneys' offices alleging that the defendant violated California's false advertising law and the unfair competition law (UCL) by making false and misleading statements regarding the dimensions, quantity and thickness of its plastic bags and toilet paper when it sold those products to governmental entities, the trial court's dismissal on statute of limitations grounds is reversed, where the district attorneys limited their lawsuit to unlawful acts that fell within the four-year period for bringing UCL claims specified in Business and Professions Code section 17208 and that, for purposes of the request for injunctive relief, were likely to recur in the future.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/14/2012
• Published 05/14/2012

Judges

• Perluss

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas R. Wenke, Patton Martin & Sullivan