A thirteenth post-Tobacco II opinion: Tucker v. Pacific Bell Mobile Services

In Tucker v. Pacific Bell Mobile Services, ___ Cal.App.4th ___ (Aug. 7, 2012), the Court of Appeal (First Appellate District, Division Five) affirmed an order sustaining the defendants' demurrer to the complaint's class allegations, relying heavily on Knapp v. AT&T Wireless Services, Inc., 195 Cal.App.4th 932 (2011) and Cohen v. DirecTV, Inc., 178 Cal.App.4th 966 (2009).

The opinion contains a lengthy and interesting discussion of the legal standard governing challenges to class allegations at the pleading stage.  Slip op. at 5-10. 

This is the thirteenth significant Court of Appeal opinion construtiong In re Tobacco II Cases, 46 Cal.4th 298 (2009).  See this blog post for more on the first twelve cases.