Amicus Briefs

Consumer Action is proud to work with plaintiffs' attorneys to file amicus ("friend of the court") briefs in legal cases of importance to the consumer interest.

• Ardon vs. City of Los Angeles
  A legal challenge held that local governments should not be permitted to retain illegally collected taxes merely because they need the funds to balance their budgets. As it turns out, the California Supreme Court agrees.
• Sorrell v. IMS Health
  Sorrell v. IMS Health centers on the sale of drug prescription data.
• Viacom v. YouTube
  Consumer Action joins an amicus filing supporting YouTube-Google in an appeals case to determine that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) law indemnifies online companies like YouTube when the content is removed upon notification by the copyright holder.