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Jun. 22, 2004

How Things Work: Restitution and the Unfair-Competition Law

Focus Column - Consumer Law - By Jan T. Chilton and William L. Stern - Fifteen years ago, a junior high school teacher named David Macauley wrote a nifty book called "The Way Things Work." He explained in simple terms how toilets work, and fire extinguishers, windmills, carburetors and other such things. But not a word about how restitution works under California's unfair-competition law, Business & Professions Code Section 17200.

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