{"id":403968,"date":"2026-07-19T00:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T00:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/403968\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T00:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T00:30:06","slug":"california-bill-would-let-consumers-sue-companies-over-anticompetitive-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/403968\/","title":{"rendered":"California bill would let consumers sue companies over anticompetitive conduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">A CONTENTIOUS BILL lawmakers are debating this year has them asking the question: Should Californians have the right to sue if a company is using unfair tactics to strangle its competition?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org\/bills\/ca_202520260ab1776\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Bill 1776<\/a>\u00a0would expand California\u2019s antitrust law to allow people and businesses that claim they\u2019re harmed by a company\u2019s attempts to stifle competition to sue in state court.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Sign in to read this story and receive the weekly roundup in your inbox. <\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A CONTENTIOUS BILL lawmakers are debating this year has them asking the question: Should Californians have the right&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[162049,86277,59821,387,7,15079,9,1843,8,6752,162050,162051,5357,3060,6974,1016,3001,82976,162052,13,95622,67487,81579,80454],"class_list":["post-403968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-american-economic-liberties-project","tag-antitrust","tag-ben-golombek","tag-business","tag-california","tag-california-chamber-of-commerce","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-legislature","tag-california-news","tag-calmatters","tag-cecilia-aguiar-curry","tag-compete-act","tag-competition","tag-consumer-protection","tag-labor-unions","tag-lawsuits","tag-legislation","tag-mark-ramos","tag-monopolies","tag-politics","tag-tech-companies","tag-tom-umberg","tag-trial-lawyers","tag-united-food-and-commercial-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}