Panel Reverses Judgment Against Putative Class, Citing ‘Disparity In Discovery’

(July 14, 2021, 10:13 AM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — A California appellate panel on July 7 reversed a trial court’s rulings granting a retail store’s no-merits motion and entering judgment in its favor on two consumers’ putative class action claims that the retail store violated state laws, including California’s unfair competition law (UCL), through a store “cash” program, writing that the court abused its discretion by ruling before the plaintiffs completed discovery....