Opinion ID: 3036350
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Heading: Our Court’s Interpretation of Pennsylvania

Text: Case Law Given the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s unequivocal holdings, and the Pennsylvania Superior Court’s interpretation of those holdings, it is perhaps unsurprising that our Court has already interpreted the justifiable-reliance standing requirement to apply to all substantive subsections of the Consumer Protection Law, fraud-based or not. In Santana Prods., Inc., we interpreted Weinberg to mean that “a plaintiff bringing an action under the [Consumer Protection Law] must prove the common 14 law fraud elements of reliance and causation with respect to all subsections of the [Consumer Protection Law].” 401 F.3d at 136 (emphasis added) (making this observation in the course of determining whether the Consumer Protection Law’s statute of limitations should be borrowed for purposes of plaintiff’s Lanham Act claim). Similarly, in Tran v. Metro. Life Ins. Co., 408 F.3d 130, 139–41 (3d Cir. 2005), we stated that the plaintiff was wise to retreat at oral argument from his contention that, because he alleged only unfair business practices and deceptive conduct, not fraud, he need not allege justifiable reliance. Citing Weinberg, Yocca, and various Superior Court decisions, we “reject[ed the plaintiff’s] argument that he [was] freed from proving justifiable reliance in connection with his [Consumer Protection Law] claims.” Id. at 141.