California Federal Judge Dismisses UCL Class Action Against General Motors

Mealey's (December 13, 2021, 10:01 AM EST) -- SAN DIEGO — A California federal judge on Nov. 19 granted General Motors LLC’s motion to dismiss a putative class complaint asserting violations of the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act and California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by not acknowledging and remedying a defect in engine bay fuse blocks of certain vehicles, finding that GM did not owe “any implied warranty obligations” and that its “failure to acknowledge or remedy a defect that occurred outside any applicable express warranty period” and the complaint’s “conclusory allegations are insufficient to support an UCL ‘unfair’ prong claim.”...