Law360, New York (June 8, 2011) -- In a 2009 landmark decision, the California Supreme Court ruled that absent class members need not establish that they suffered injury as a result of unfair competition in order to assert viable UCL claims. In re Tobacco II Cases, 46 Cal. 4th 298, 321, 326 (2009) ("Tobacco II"). The court concluded that Proposition 64 (approved by California voters in the November 2004 general election) substantively amended the UCL by imposing a standing requirement on only the named plaintiff, not the class at large.
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