Tim Sandefur collects them, too: “[I]n another currently pending case, a trial court hearing a class action lawsuit with class members from across the nation — but suing in California — held that it could simply ignore the choice of law clauses of the contracts from 48 other states, because ?17200 is more broadly written than any other ‘consumer protection’ law, and therefore it violated public policy to require litigants from other states to litigate there even though the contracts they signed required them to do so.” (Dec. 3). See also Oct. 26; Nov. 24; Steven Greenhut, “How California’s Consumer Laws Legalize Extortion”, Foundation for Economic Education, May.
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Tim Sandefur collects them, too: “[I]n another currently pending case, a trial court hearing a class action lawsuit with class members from across the nation — but suing in California — held that it could simply ignore the choice of law clauses of the contracts from 48 other states, because ?17200 is more broadly written […]
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