Attorney Ronald Lee Burdge's Legal Cases

Class action

Hall v Jack Walker Pontiac Toyota, Inc.

Dec 01, 2000

OUTCOME: Case Settled

Case involved class action against car dealership over its advertisements of improving credit for customers and class action certification requirements under the Credit Services Organization and Consum ... er Acts and car dealership sales and financing practices. Afterwards the auto industry's trade group in Ohio successfully lobbied the state legislature to amend the law to exempt car dealers from it so they wouldn't be sued again.

Lemon law

Davenport vs Score Automotive, Inc

N/A

OUTCOME: Smith won

Case interpreting right to rescission and substantial use of goods under Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act and Commercial Code

Class action

Birch v Al Castrucci, Inc

N/A

OUTCOME: Consumer won case at trial level

Case interpreting a jury waiver in a consumer contract to be presumptively enforceable

Consumer protection

Turner vs. Bob Ross Buick, Inc

N/A

OUTCOME: Consume won trial and appeal

Case upholding a Jury verdict of $120,000 punitive damages in a consumer fraud case under the Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act involving $1,300 of undisclosed repairs in the sale of a used car, purcha ... sed by an attorney; the consumer recovered over $142,000, including interest on the judgment, and kept the car

Lemon law

State ex rel Zeff vs. Rose Chevrolet, Inc

N/A

OUTCOME: Consumer won trial and appeal

a certified class action case over Rose’s practice of selling used rental cars as "factory official"cars

Consumer protection

Sprovach vs. Bob Ross Buick, Inc

N/A

OUTCOME: Consumer won trial and appeal

This is the seminal case that decided when attorney fees should be requested under the Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act

Consumer protection

Bittner vs. Tri-County Toyota, Inc

N/A

OUTCOME: Consumer won trial and appeal

This was a ground-breaking case that decided how an award of attorney fees is to be calculated under the Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act

Lemon law

Einhorn vs. Beau Townsend Ford, Inc

N/A

OUTCOME: Consume won trial and appeal

this case resolved the Appellate District courts’ conflicting interpretations on the meaning of "knowingly" under the Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act in favor of protecting consumers' right to recove ... r attorney fees from the losing merchant after they win a consumer fraud case

Class action

Zeff vs Rose Chevrolet, Inc

N/A

OUTCOME: Consumer class of car buyers won trial and appeal

Class action certification decision appeal was upheld on reconsideration of unreported decision dismissing appeal of certification decision

Class action

Stammco LLC v United Telephone Co. of Ohio

N/A

OUTCOME: Reversed to clarify class definition

Case determining propriety of requirements for class definition of class certified in “cramming” case of causing unauthorized charges to be placed on customers’ telephone bills

Ronald Lee Burdge's Legal Cases (36)

Hall v Jack Walker Pontiac Toyota, Inc.

Davenport vs Score Automotive, Inc

Birch v Al Castrucci, Inc

Turner vs. Bob Ross Buick, Inc

State ex rel Zeff vs. Rose Chevrolet, Inc

Sprovach vs. Bob Ross Buick, Inc

Bittner vs. Tri-County Toyota, Inc

Einhorn vs. Beau Townsend Ford, Inc

Zeff vs Rose Chevrolet, Inc

Stammco LLC v United Telephone Co. of Ohio