California Lemon Law

Hollywood produced a movie a few years ago, “Fools Don’t Rush In,” in which a guy fell in love with Selma Hayek but played it cool and coy, and ultimately won her heart. The movie’s title is my theme forREAD MORE

Hello again. When I started doing consumer protection law, the only dealerships which would sell used cars “as-is” were the smaller dealerships, never the major franchise dealerships. Now we’re seeing more and more major franchise dealerships selling used cars “as-is”,READ MORE

Slide-outs, or slide rooms, are the rule, rather than the exception, in later-model motorhomes. For those of you who do not know that a “slide-out” is, it’s a portion of the coach which actually moves out when the coach isREAD MORE

Hello, all. Good news from Orange County Superior Court, where the judge in my trial against Bentley just ruled that Bentley must completely repurchase my client’s defective 2001 Bentley Arnage. Given how hard Bentley fought this trial, this is quiteREAD MORE

There’s a disturbing trend among credit card companies these days. They’re specifically targeting people just coming out of bankruptcy and using fraud and trickery to get them to “reaffirm” debts they’ve previously discharged in the bankruptcy proceedings. It works likeREAD MORE

Just finished a three-week trial over a Bentley Arnage with eight airbag illuminations.  Bentley’s defense was positively ludicrous.  First, Bentley claimed that a small bumper-ding on the right front bumper caused all of the Bentley’s airbag system problems.  But then,READ MORE

Good news from the consumer protection front!  California’s Car Buyer’s Bill of Rights, signed into law effective the first of this year (2007) seems to be working!  It contains many rights for consumers, but some of the key ones includeREAD MORE

I guess Bentley Motors is not only snooty but arrogant as well.  My client, Matt, is a successful business owner from Orange County who bought a Bentley Arnage as his “dream car” in 2002.  The car came with the Bentley 3-year warranty. READ MORE

My office has successfully handled several cases involving false claims of gas mileage for new “hybrid” vehicles.  In fact, gas mileage claims on these vehicles are grossly inflated and consumers should know this. The good news is, I read inREAD MORE

I’ve been contacted by several recent consumers who believed (or had been told) that they did not have lemon law rights because they were second or third owners of their cars. This is not always the case.  If your warrantyREAD MORE