Tort Reform Advocate Files Class Action After His Car Is Towed
A California tort reform advocate upset about the towing of his car has filed a class action lawsuit.
Fred Hiestand, general counsel of the Civil Justice Association of California, claims the city of Sacramento failed to post signs warning that cars in a no parking zone may be towed, the Recorder reports. His suit names the city along with the city’s police chief, city police officers and the company that towed his car.
Hiestand says he left his car in a no parking zone for a quick meal at a fast food restaurant, and was surprised to find the vehicle had been towed. “Sacramento has apparently been thumbing their nose at the law” requiring signs warning of possible towing, he told the Recorder. His suit also cites California’s Unfair Competition Law, targeted by his group in a 2004 voter referendum.
Hiestand told the publication he’ll use any award to pay his litigation costs. Any money left over, he said, will be used to fight “frivolous class action lawsuits.”
“We’ve never said that all class actions are meritless,” he said.
