Los Angeles Partner Rick Stuhlbarg was interviewed and quoted by the Los Angeles Daily Journal on the surge of new lemon lawsuits in California since the passage of AB 1755 which had the aim of reducing California courts’ civil court backlog. “Despite the lemon law changes, we have seen a big spike in filings,” he said. “If the goal of the changes was to lessen the burden on the courts by reducing the number of filings and litigated cases, the objective data does not show that has happened.” Rick provided data collected by Bowman and Brooke that there have been 19,359 filings through June 2025, putting this year on pace to surpass 38,000 total filings. That would exceed the 30,190 filings recorded in 2024. By comparison, there were 22,655 filings in 2023, 14,892 in 2022 and 10,797 in 2021.
As of September 30, filings are at nearly 26,000.
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