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California's UCL is broadly written. [19] Section 17200 includes five definitions of unfair competition: (1) an unlawful business act or practice; (2) an unfair business act or practice; (3) a fraudulent business act or practice; (4) unfair, deceptive, untrue, or misleading advertising; or (5) any act prohibited by Sections 17500-17577.5. [20]
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed a first-of-a-kind lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, accusing the oil giant of deceiving the public about plastic recycling.
Attorney misconduct is unethical or illegal conduct by an attorney. Attorney misconduct may include: conflict of interest, overbilling, false or misleading statements, knowingly pursuing frivolous and meritless lawsuits, concealing evidence, abandoning a client, failing to disclose all relevant facts, arguing a position while neglecting to disclose prior law which might counter the argument ...
USC deceptively marketed an inferior online social work graduate degree as equal to its respected on-campus program, using it as a 'cash cow,' a class-action lawsuit alleges.
Voting fraud, transgender rights: Trump’s false, misleading claims at California GOP Convention. Maggie Angst, Ari Plachta. September 29, 2023 at 6:10 PM. Jeff Gritchen/The Orange County ...
In September 2010, John Flannery, a former chief investment officer of State Street Bank & Trust Company, and James Hopkins, a former product engineer there, were charged with misleading investors about the bank's exposure to subprime investments. Earlier in the year, the SEC announced a settlement in which State Street agreed to pay $313 ...
In the United States, solicitation is the name of a crime, an inchoate offense that consists of a person offering money or inducing another to commit a crime with the specific intent that the person solicited commit the crime. For example, under federal law, for a solicitation conviction to occur the prosecution must prove both that defendant ...
Materiality of false or misleading statements in proxy statements under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934: Kleppe v. New Mexico: 426 U.S. 529 (1976) Protection of animals on land held by the Bureau of Land Management: Doyle v. Ohio: 426 U.S. 610 (1976) Impeaching a defendant with his silence in response to the warnings required by Miranda v.