Consumer remedies: litigation costs: prevailing party.

Existing law, the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, authorizes a consumer who suffers damage from the use of unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts, as defined, to bring an action to recover damages or other relief. Existing law requires a court to award court costs and attorney's fees to the prevailing plaintiff in an action brought pursuant to those provisions. Existing law permits a court to award reasonable attorney's fees to a prevailing defendant only if the court finds that the plaintiff's prosecution of the action was not in good faith. This bill would revise those provisions to require a court to award court costs and attorney's fees to the prevailing party in an action as described above.