Legal Opinion
Wald v. TRUSPEED MOTORCARS, LLC
California Court of Appeal
Decided May 3, 2010No. G042207PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
SILLS, P. J.
I. INTRODUCTION
Back in the 1940’s, a character in a theatrical comedy flatly stated that there is no such thing as a perfect crime. To which the retort was: “Ever buy a used car?”
The exchange might be a bit out of date today. California law has not only required car dealers to be licensed since 1959 (see Veh. Code, § 11700, 2 added by Stats. 1959, ch. 3, § 2, p. 1523), but has subjected car dealers to specific statutes against fraud (see generally § 11711) since that date as well. And a relatively recent statute, section 11711.3 (added by Stats. 2002, ch. 407, § 2) goes so…
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