Recent Challanges to 'No Injury' (and Less Novel) Consumer Protection Class Actions
James J. Jones, Esq. and John G. Unice, Esq.

About the Authors James M. Jones is a partner and John G. Unice is an associate with the Pittsburgh office of Jones Day. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors, and not necessarily those of their firm, or it clients.

photo-2 During the mid-1960s to mid-1970s, state legislatures enacted what are commonly referred to as consumer protection statutes. Modeled after the Federal Trade Commission Act, Uniform Consumer Sales Practices Act, or Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act, these state statutes generally prohibit certain defined unfair or deceptive business practices.¹ These statutes redress financial harm suffered by …