Legal Opinion
Hall v. Time Inc.
California Court of Appeal
Decided January 28, 2008No. G038040PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
FYBEL, J.
Introduction
A plaintiff must have suffered an “injury in fact” and have “lost money or property as a result of the unfair competition” (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 17204) to have standing to pursue either an individual or a representative claim under the California unfair competition law (UCL; Bus. & Prof. Code, § 17200 et seq.) We hold the phrase “as a result of’ in the UCL imposes a causation requirement; that is, the alleged unfair competition must have caused the plaintiff to lose money or property.
Because plaintiff Jeffrey R. Hall alleged neither injury in fact nor causation, he…
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