Automotive Industries

The automotive industry faces unique statutory and regulatory provisions.   We have successfully represented a range of industry companies facing these challenges.  

• For a major rental car company, we represented the business in a representative action under California Business & Professions Code section 17200 for false advertising. Raising novel legal theories, the action was dismissed prior to a time-consuming and expensive discovery phase.

• For automotive dealers, we responded to hostile consumer advocacy personalities who used televised undercover reporting.

• We defended class and representative actions based on claims under the Vehicle Leasing Act and the Automobile Sales Finance Act.

• We obtained dismissal of wage and hour class claims by sales professionals.

• We defended discrimination claims alleged in lending and sales practices.

• We defeated representative claims for violation of Magnuson-Moss warranty requirements and parallel California requirements.

• We defended California Consumer Legal Remedies Act claims in motor vehicle transactions.

• We obtained dismissal without payment of representative actions alleging breaches of duty in vehicle license fee calculation and disclosure, registration disclosures, and sales tax on negative equity.

• At trial, we defeated a representative action on behalf of the general public alleging violations of the Spanish language contract requirements of the California Civil Code.