California Unfair Competition Defense Podcast

GT Shareholder Ed Chansky joins co-hosts Greg Nylen and Adil Khan to discuss current enforcement efforts by the Federal Trade Commission and its focus on “junk” fees, auto-renewal issues, and other “Dark Patterns.” 

GT attorneys and class-action litigators Adil M. Khan and Layal Bishara join hosts Lisa Simonetti and Greg Nylen to discuss the legal risks created by marketing, sustainability reports, and other statements on “ESG”—environmental, social, and governance—issues. The group discusses best practices for marketing as well as litigation strategies for defending against false advertising claims.

In this episode, we discuss whether omissions can provide a basis for a claim under the fraudulent prong of the UCL or the CLRA.

Special guest and arbitrator/mediator Daniel Turner joins us for a discussion of how recent cases, including Supreme Court decisions, have impacted the arbitrability of individual and class claims under PAGA and California’s unfair competition statutes.

In this episode, our guest Dominique “Mike” Hanssens, professor of marketing at UCLA’s business school, discusses how to properly design, conduct and report on consumer surveys for cases involving unfair competition and deceptive advertising.

Here is the link to the Reference Guide on Survey Research by Shari Seidman Diamond: https://doi.org/10.17226/13163.

In this episode, we discuss defense strategies for UCL and FAL claims based on law developed under the federal Lanham Act, and the relationship between those statutes.

In this episode, we discuss the 24 enumerated “wrongs” under the CRLA and procedural quirks.  We also discuss some new decisions.

In this episode, we discuss the purpose and application of the CRLA, along with an overview of remedies.  We also discuss some new decisions.

In this episode, our co-hosts discuss current law governing restitution under the UCL and FAL, and damages under the CLRA, along with issues related to injunctive relief, including McGill v. Citibank. 

In this episode, our co-hosts discuss current legal principles governing standing to sue in state and federal court, along with recent case developments regarding insurance coverage for attorneys’ fees in enforcement actions, the safe harbor defense and the availability of an Unfair Competition Law claim in a commercial context not involving direct competitors.