Consumer Class Actions: Introduction
California’s operative general class action statute, Code of Civil Procedure § 382, was enacted in 1872 as part of California’s Field Code and has remained essentially unchanged.15 California’s second class action statute, the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, is found at Civil Code §§ 1750, et seq., and lists 23 prohibited acts, violations of which form the basis for class actions seeking damages and a wide variety of other remedies.