O'BRIEN
O'BRIEN v. Camisasca Automotive Mfg., Inc.
Opinion
Opinion
Law Offices of Barry P. King and Barry P. King, Los Angeles; Jones, Bell, Abbott, Fleming & Fitzgerald L.L.P. and Fredrick A. Rafeedie, Los Angeles, for Camisasca Automotive Manufacturing, Inc., Defendant and Respondent.
Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP, Stanley M. Gibson and Matthew D. Hinks, Los Angeles, for Volkswagen of America, Inc., Defendant and Respondent.
ALDRICH, J.
Plaintiff Lawrence O'Brien brought this putative class action lawsuit against defendants Camisasca Automotive Manufacturing, Inc. and Volkswagen of America, Inc. (Volkswagen), alleging defendants violated the Unfair Competition Law (Bus. & Prof. Code [1] (the UCL)), the False Advertising Law (the FAL), [2] and the Consumers Legal Remedies Act (the CLRA) [3] by falsely representing that the license plate frames defendants offered for sale were "Made in USA." The trial court granted defendants' motions for summary judgment on the ground that O'Brien did not have standing under Proposition 64's amendments to the UCL and the FAL. The amendments authorize a lawsuit under those statutes only by a person "who has suffered injury in fact and has lost money or property as a result of a violation of these…