Cook, Perkiss And Liehe, Inc. v. Northern California Collection Service Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that statement “we’re the low cost commercial collection experts” was puffery because any implication that services were superior to that of the competition was “merely general in nature”
• noting that “misdescriptions of specific or absolute characteristics of a product 27 are actionable”
• upholding the dismissal of a claim without leave to amend where the defect in the pleading could not be cured
• “ ‘Puffing’ has been described by most courts as involving outrageous generalized statements, not making specific claims, that are so exaggerated as to preclude reliance by consumers.”
• 35,000 candle power and 10 homUife lamp

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).