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Governor Newsom Issues Executive Order Extending Protections for Homeowners and Renters Related to LA Fires

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Quick Take On March 7, 2025, Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N-23-25 (the Order), extending certain protections for homeowners and renters affected by the multiple fires in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties...more

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California's Anti-Price Gouging Law: What Businesses and Consumers Need to Know About Price Increases For Goods & Services After...

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Following the devastating fires in Southern California, Governor Gavin Newsom proclaimed a State of Emergency to exist in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. This proclamation triggered the application of California Penal Code...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Client Alert: Protecting Against Residential Price Gouging During the Los Angeles Wildfires

As devastating wildfires displace thousands in Los Angeles County, Governor Newsom has declared a state of emergency. In the wake of this crisis, California’s price-gouging laws impose strict limits on rental price increases...more

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Governor Newsom’s January 12, 2025 Executive Order on Wildfire Recovery – CEQA Suspension and Key Provisions

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On January 12, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an Executive Order in furtherance of his January 7 State of Emergency declaration to expedite recovery efforts following the devastating fires in Los Angeles and...more

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California Creates New Agency to Regulate and Monitor Gasoline Prices and Operations

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Last September, in response to significant increases of the retail price of gasoline, California Governor Gavin Newsom called for a special legislative session to consider the imposition of a price cap or “price gouging...more

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The End of Price Restrictions in California… Or Merely a Step Towards Normal

One year after declaring a state of emergency in California due to COVID-19, the California Governor issued a new Executive Order lifting pricing restrictions on most categories of products previously subject to California’s...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Amended California Price Gouging Law Closes Potential Loopholes

California Penal Code § 396 prohibits price gouging in California during a state of emergency. California enacted a few amendments to Section 396 that are effective now. As explained in more detail below, among other things,...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

California Strengthens Penal Code Section 396, Codifies Price Gouging Executive Order

Since the beginning of the pandemic, many governors have issued executive orders targeted at combating price gouging. However, one California state senator, Senator Thomas Umberg, proposed going a step further. In April 2020,...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Price Gouging Weekly Round Up - August 2020 #4

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Price gouging enforcement and litigation is front and center for company counsel and business managers nationwide. Our weekly round up highlights some of the most relevant news and information to our clients and friends. ...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Testing California’s Price Gouging Statute

Pandemic-related price spikes in consumer goods have attracted the attention of both government enforcers and private plantiffs. In California, Attorney General Xavier Becerra has issued two admonitions against price gouging...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Price Gouging in California (and Elsewhere) During COVID-19 ... And the Claims That Are Likely to Follow

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On March 4, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency. Price gouging is illegal in all California communities during the declared state of...more

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