{"id":2290,"date":"2024-08-19T18:29:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T18:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/plaintiffs-attorneys-automaker-cut-deal-to-amend-californias-lemon-law\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T18:29:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T18:29:46","slug":"plaintiffs-attorneys-automaker-cut-deal-to-amend-californias-lemon-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/plaintiffs-attorneys-automaker-cut-deal-to-amend-californias-lemon-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaintiffs Attorneys, Automaker Cut Deal to Amend California&#8217;s Lemon Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Plaintiffs attorneys and at least one car manufacturer have negotiated an end-of-session legislative deal to amend California\u2019s\u00a0 \u201clemon law,\u201d the 42-year-old <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmv.ca.gov\/portal\/handbook\/vehicle-industry-registration-procedures-manual-2\/general-information-licensees\/lemon-law-buybacks-and-warranty-returns\/#:~:text=California%20Civil%20Code%20(CCC)%20%C2%A7,as%20the%20%E2%80%9CLemon%20Law.%E2%80%9D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">statute<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that requires automakers to refund the cost of or replace defective vehicles, sources familiar with the discussions said Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those involved in the talks declined to disclose specifics of the bill that is expected to be introduced next week. It is expected, however, to address manufacturers\u2019 complaints that some lawyers and law firms have exploited the law\u2019s provisions to rack up statutory attorneys fees and civil penalties that can be double the amount of an owner\u2019s actual damages.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plaintiffs attorneys and at least one car manufacturer have negotiated an end-of-session legislative deal to amend California\u2019s\u00a0 \u201clemon law,\u201d the 42-year-old statute that requires automakers to refund the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3022,93,3020,3023,3021,379,153,3024,397],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-amend","tag-attorneys","tag-automaker","tag-californias","tag-cut","tag-deal","tag-law","tag-lemon","tag-plaintiffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}