Sections
70 entriesSection 43Establishes that every person holds, beyond the personal rights named in the Government Code, a right to protection from bodily restraint or…Section 43.1Treats a child who has been conceived but not yet born as an existing person, but only so far as necessary to…Section 43.3Allows a mother to breastfeed her child in any location, public or private, where she and the child are otherwise authorized to…Section 43.4Bars any damages claim based on a fraudulent promise to marry or to cohabit after marriage, so someone deceived by that kind…Section 43.5Bars any cause of action for alienation of affection, criminal conversation, seduction of a person over the age of legal consent, or…Section 43.54Prohibits civil arrest of a person inside a courthouse while they attend a court proceeding or conduct legal business there. Carves out…Section 43.55Bars liability and lawsuits against a peace officer who arrests someone under an arrest warrant regular upon its face, provided the officer…Section 43.56Bars any cause of action against a foster parent for alienation of affection of a foster child. Covers only that single claim:…Section 43.6Bars any cause of action against a parent based on a claim that their child should not have been conceived or, once…Section 43.7Bars monetary liability against members of mental health quality assurance committees, professional society and peer review committees, hospital governing boards, and physicians…Section 43.8Bars monetary liability and damages claims against anyone who gives information to a hospital, professional society, licensing board, peer review or quality…Section 43.9Exempts a health care provider from professional negligence liability for acting or failing to act on an unsolicited referral from a multiphasic…Section 43.91Bars monetary liability for members of a professional society committee formed to maintain professional standards, and for anyone who supplies information to…Section 43.92Bars monetary liability and lawsuits against a psychotherapist for failing to protect against a patient's violent behavior, unless the patient communicated a…Section 43.93Creates a cause of action letting a patient or former patient recover damages from a psychotherapist for sexual contact during therapy, within…Section 43.95Bars damages claims against professional societies and their authorized nonprofit referral services for referring the public to a member professional or for…Section 43.96Requires a medical or podiatric society, licensed health facility, state agency, or local government agency that receives a written public complaint about…Section 43.97Bars monetary liability beyond economic or pecuniary damages against a hospital acting on its medical staff's recommendation, or against anyone imposing a…Section 43.98Bars monetary liability and damages claims against a consultant for communications to the Department of Managed Health Care about whether health care…Section 43.99Bars damages claims against an independent quality reviewer hired by a residential building permit applicant, if the reviewer has five years' experience…Section 43.100Bars any civil liability or cause of action against a person for property damage or trespass to a motor vehicle caused while…Section 43.101Shields an emergency responder from liability for damage to an unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system caused while the responder was providing…Section 43.102Bars any civil liability or cause of action against a person for property damage or trespass to a motor vehicle caused while…Section 44Defines defamation as taking exactly two forms, libel and slander, and no others. Sets out no elements, defenses, damages, or remedies for…Section 45Defines libel as a false and unprivileged publication by writing, printing, picture, effigy, or other fixed visual representation that exposes a person…Section 45aDefines libel on its face as language that is defamatory without any need for explanatory matter such as an inducement, innuendo, or…Section 46Defines slander as a false, unprivileged statement uttered orally or communicated by radio or other mechanical means that charges someone with a…Section 47Defines which publications and broadcasts are privileged: those made in the proper discharge of an official duty, in legislative, judicial, or other…Section 47.1Makes a communication about an incident of sexual assault, harassment, or discrimination privileged under Section 47 when made without malice, and awards…Section 47.5Allows a peace officer, despite Section 47, to sue for defamation over a false complaint of misconduct, criminal conduct, or incompetence filed…Section 48Bars malice from being inferred from the communication itself in the situation covered by subdivision (c) of Section 47. Adds no other…Section 48aLimits a plaintiff suing over a libel in a daily or weekly news publication, or a slander by radio broadcast, to special…Section 48.5Shields radio and television station owners, licensees, operators, and their employees from defamation damages for statements made by someone else on a…Section 48.7Bars a person charged with child abuse from suing the minor, a parent or guardian, or any witness for libel or slander…Section 48.8Protects reports to a school principal, or by a student to a teacher, counselor, or nurse, that a named person threatened gun…Section 48.9Shields anonymous witness programs and their employees and agents from civil damages, including defamation and retaliation claims, for taking tips about criminal…Section 49Prohibits three interferences with the rights of personal relations: abducting or enticing a child away from a parent or a guardian entitled…Section 50Allows a person to use any necessary force to protect against wrongful injury, reaching not only that person's own self and property…Section 51Establishes the Unruh Civil Rights Act, which entitles all persons to full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, and services in every…Section 51.1Requires each party to serve its brief or petition on the State Solicitor General whenever a violation or construction of Sections 51,…Section 51.2Requires Section 51 to be read as barring business establishments from discriminating by age in the sale or rental of housing, while…Section 51.3Defines the rules for senior citizen housing developments: a qualifying resident must be 62 or older, or 55 or older in a…Section 51.3.5Allows an intergenerational housing development in which at least 80 percent of occupied units house a senior aged 55 or older and…Section 51.4Explains why California's senior housing design rules are stricter than the federal Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, and protects anyone who…Section 51.5Prohibits any business establishment from discriminating against, boycotting, blacklisting, or refusing to buy from, sell to, contract or trade with a person…Section 51.6Prohibits any business establishment from charging different prices by gender for services of similar or like kind, under the Gender Tax Repeal…Section 51.7Establishes the right to be free from violence or intimidation by threat of violence because of political affiliation, position in a labor…Section 51.8Bars a franchisor from discriminating in granting franchises solely because of characteristics listed in Section 51 held by the franchisee and reflected…Section 51.9Creates a sexual harassment claim for unwelcome, severe or pervasive sexual or gender-hostile conduct inside a business, service, or professional relationship, including…Section 51.10Requires Section 51 to be read as barring a business establishment from age discrimination in the sale or rental of housing, while…Section 51.11Sets the rules for senior citizen housing developments, allowing occupancy limits that require one resident aged 62 or older, or 55 or…Section 51.12States the Legislature's finding that California's senior housing requirements under Sections 51.10 and 51.11 are stricter than the federal Fair Housing Amendments…Section 51.13Allows a business to give a consumer a discount or other benefit because that consumer has lost or had reduced employment or…Section 51.14Prohibits any business from charging different prices for two substantially similar goods when the gap is based on the gender the goods…Section 51.17Requires the Civil Rights Department to run a pilot program by January 1, 2025 recognizing businesses that keep customers free from discrimination…Section 52Makes anyone who denies rights under Sections 51, 51.5, or 51.6 liable for actual damages, up to three times that amount, never…Section 52.1Allows an individual whose constitutional or statutory rights are blocked by threat, intimidation, or coercion to sue for damages and attorney's fees…Section 52.2Allows an action brought under Section 52 or Section 54.3 to proceed in any court of competent jurisdiction. Includes small claims court…Section 52.3Prohibits any governmental authority, its agents, or anyone acting on its behalf from engaging in a pattern or practice of law enforcement…Section 52.4Allows anyone subjected to gender violence to sue a responsible party for actual, compensatory, and punitive damages, injunctive relief, and attorney's fees,…Section 52.45Allows anyone subjected to sexual orientation violence to sue a responsible party for actual, compensatory, and punitive damages, injunctive relief, attorney's fees,…Section 52.5Allows a human trafficking victim to sue for damages of up to three times actual losses or $10,000, whichever is greater, plus…Section 52.6Requires listed businesses, including bars, hotels, truck stops, airports, emergency rooms, and nail and hair salons, to post an 8.5-by-11-inch human trafficking…Section 52.65Makes a hotel liable for civil penalties when a supervisory employee knew of or recklessly disregarded sex trafficking on site and failed…Section 52.66Requires a primary ticket seller to send a human trafficking hotline notice with the electronic confirmation for every mobile or electronic ticket…Section 52.7Prohibits requiring, coercing, or compelling anyone to have an identification device implanted under the skin, exposing violators to civil penalties of up…Section 52.8Requires courts to award attorney's fees and costs to a plaintiff who wins a civil suit against anyone who distributes, benefits from,…Section 53Voids any provision in a written instrument about real property that limits its conveyance, encumbrance, leasing, mortgaging, use, or occupation because of…Section 53.5Prohibits hotels, motels, inns, and private or charter bus companies from releasing guest records or passenger manifests to third parties without a…Section 53.7Prohibits any state or local law from denying a minority group equal protection by restructuring the policy decisionmaking process so as to…