People v. Dollar Rent-A-Car Systems, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the defendant violated the UCL by charging for the “retail cost” of car repairs in excess of actual repair costs
• providing that Section 17500 prohibits the use of any untrue or misleading statement in selling personal property or services, including false or misleading oral statements
• “In order to recover under [the FAL], it is necessary to show only that members of the public are likely to be deceived.”
• each of the more than 500,000 misleading or deceptive car rental contracts could justify a separate penalty; therefore, the $100,000.00 penalty was \abundantly justified\
• “In order to recover under [the FAL], it is necessary to show only that members of the public are likely to be deceived.”
• “False and misleading representations necessarily constitute unfair business practices within the meaning of [Section 17200.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).