People Ex Rel. Lockyer v. Brar

Opinion

SILLS, P. J.

In July 2003 the Attorney General filed a complaint against attorney Harpreet Brar to obtain an order to make him stop filing lawsuits under California’s unfair competition law (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 17200). Allegedly, Brar has engaged in the sort of abuse of California’s unfair competition law which made the Trevor Law Group a household name in California in 2002 and 2003. The abuse is a kind of legal shakedown scheme: Attorneys form a front “watchdog” or “consumer” organization. They scour public records on the Internet for what are often ridiculously minor violations of…