A California judge has permanently banned the Kars4Kids jingle from state airwaves after a full civil trial found the charity's 30-year-old car-donation ad misled donors through deliberate omission.
The ruling, issued on 8 May 2026 by Judge Gassia Apkarian of the Orange County Superior Court, found that Kars4Kids violated California's False Advertising Law and Unfair Competition Law by broadcasting a jingle that said nothing about its actual mission.
