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Contracts,
Torts/Personal Injury

Aug. 21, 2024

A look under the 'hood' reveals that auto manufacturers are failing to fulfill their legal obligations

Auto manufacturers are not complying with the California Lemon Law, which requires them to repurchase or replace defective vehicles, leading to a rise in lawsuits.

Isaac Agyeman

Associate Attorney, Joseph Kaufman & Associates

Pepperdine University SOL; Malibu CA

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Last month, the Civil Justice Association of California (CJAC) attacked California's lemon law, arguing that changes to the lemon law are needed to disincentivize greedy plaintiffs' attorneys who file too many lawsuits. But a closer look at the mechanics of the lemon law statute itself, actual data, and recent cases, tells an entirely different story.

The data shows that the number of lemon law lawsuits is minuscule compared to the number of vehicles reg...

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