Montes v. SPARC Group LLC

Date: September 12, 2025

Summary: The RLC joined the National Retail Federation, US Chamber of Commerce and the Washington Retail Association to urge the Washington Supreme Court to hold that consumers cannot allege an injury under Washington’s Consumer Protection Act (CPA) based solely on a business advertising a higher reference price. The RLC’s brief highlights how the history of the CPA, modeled off the federal antitrust and consumer-protection laws, requires injury to a tangible business or property interest, and subjective disappointment over the extent of a bargain or savings does not qualify on its own.

Counsel: David Gossett, Fred Burnside, Ambika Kumar & Xiang Li of RLC Law Firm Member Davis Wright Tremaine