Sections
58 entriesSection 1708Requires every person, independently of contract, to refrain from injuring another person or another person’s property and from infringing another person’s rights.…Section 1708.5Defines sexual battery to include specified intentional sexually offensive contact, causing apprehension followed by such contact, and nonconsensual condom removal resulting in…Section 1708.5.5Bars consent as a defense to the specified civil sexual-battery action when the person committing the battery is an adult in a…Section 1708.5.6Allows a private damages action against a person who misuses sperm, ova, or embryos in violation of the specified Penal Code provision.…Section 1708.6Establishes civil liability for domestic violence when the defendant commits statutorily defined abuse against a person in a covered relationship and causes…Section 1708.7Establishes civil stalking liability when a corroborated pattern intended to follow, alarm, surveil, or harass causes reasonable safety fear or substantial emotional…Section 1708.8Establishes liability for offensive physical or constructive privacy invasions to capture images, recordings, or impressions of private activity, and related assault or…Section 1708.85Allows a private action for intentional nonconsensual distribution of intimate material when the distributor knew or should have known it was expected…Section 1708.86Allows a depicted individual to sue for creation, disclosure, facilitation, or reckless aiding of nonconsensual digitized sexually explicit material, including material depicting…Section 1708.88Allows a private action against a person age 18 or older who knowingly sends an unsolicited electronic image depicting obscene material. A…Section 1708.89Allows a private action against a person who doxes another by electronically distributing identifying information with intent to cause fear and imminent…Section 1708.9Prohibits injury, intimidation, or interference with people entering or leaving schools or health facilities by physical obstruction, except a parent or guardian…Section 1709Establishes liability for a person who willfully deceives another with intent to cause that person to change position to the person’s injury…Section 1710Defines deceit as knowingly suggesting a false fact, asserting a false fact without reasonable grounds for belief, suppressing a fact when disclosure…Section 1710.1Establishes civil liability for intentionally fraudulent sale or disposal of listed mechanical or electrical goods whose manufacturer identification has been removed or…Section 1710.2Exempts real-property owners and specified agents from disclosing an occupant’s death occurring more than three years before a purchase, lease, or rental…Section 1711Establishes that a person who practices deceit intending to defraud the public or a particular class is treated as having intended to…Section 1712Requires a person who obtains a thing without the owner’s consent, under consent later rescinded, or through an unlawful exaction the owner…Section 1713Requires restoration under the preceding rule to be made without demand, except when the thing was obtained through mutual mistake. In that…Section 1714Establishes liability for willful acts and injuries caused by lack of ordinary care or skill, subject to the injured person’s own willful…Section 1714.01Allows domestic partners to recover damages for negligent infliction of emotional distress to the same extent California law allows spouses to recover.…Section 1714.1Establishes joint and several parental or guardian liability for a minor’s willful misconduct, generally capped at $25,000 per tort and further limited…Section 1714.2Exempts a person who completed a qualifying basic CPR course from civil damages for good-faith CPR at an emergency scene and similarly…Section 1714.21Exempts good-faith, uncompensated AED rescuers, qualifying trainers, compliant AED acquirers, and specified physicians or professionals involved in AED selection or placement from…Section 1714.22Allows licensed health care providers to prescribe, furnish, and issue standing orders for opioid antagonists with reasonable care to persons at risk…Section 1714.23Allows trained persons and authorized entities to administer epinephrine auto-injectors in good faith under the stated health-and-safety requirements and grants specified civil-liability…Section 1714.24Exempts a collector maintaining an uncompensated drug take-back bin from civil or criminal liability for harm when it follows duties in good…Section 1714.25Exempts good-faith donors, gleaners, food facilities, nonprofit organizations, and food banks from civil liability for donated food that is fit for human…Section 1714.26Exempts qualifying nonprofit vision-screening organizations, participating eye-care professionals, and trained volunteers from liability for donated or recycled eyeglasses when specified screening, supervision,…Section 1714.27Exempts an unlicensed person who, in good faith and without compensation, administers anti-seizure rescue medication at an emergency to someone experiencing or…Section 1714.29Defines a trauma kit and applies specified Good Samaritan protections to good-faith, uncompensated use and qualifying voluntary training or certification. An employee…Section 1714.3Establishes joint and several civil liability for a custodial parent or guardian when a minor under 18 discharges a firearm causing injury…Section 1714.4Establishes liability for knowingly helping a child-support obligor evade unpaid court-ordered or approved support at three times the value of assistance, capped…Section 1714.41Establishes liability for a person or business that knowingly assists an obligor with unpaid court-ordered or court-approved child support to evade payment,…Section 1714.43Requires California retail sellers and manufacturers with annual worldwide gross receipts over $100,000,000 to disclose specified efforts to eradicate slavery and human…Section 1714.45Exempts manufacturers and sellers from product-liability claims for inherently unsafe common consumer products known as unsafe by ordinary consumers, while excluding manufacturing-defect…Section 1714.46Defines artificial intelligence as an engineered or machine-based system with varying autonomy that infers from inputs how to generate outputs influencing physical…Section 1714.47Prohibits online marketplaces from paid ads for unlicensed cannabis sellers and intoxicating hemp products, imposing joint and several liability when substantially causing…Section 1714.5Exempts owners or maintainers of designated emergency shelters and specified emergency facilities, and disaster service workers acting within authorized emergency responsibilities, from…Section 1714.55Exempts telecommunications and other service providers involved in 9-1-1 service from civil claims, damages, or losses arising from specified service design, installation,…Section 1714.6Exempts acts or omissions required to comply with authorized military orders or proclamations or Governor emergency regulations, directives, or orders from negligence…Section 1714.7Bars a person injured while boarding, riding, or leaving a moving locomotive or railroad car without the owner’s or operator’s authority from…Section 1714.8Exempts health care providers from professional-negligence or malpractice liability solely because an occurrence or result followed the natural course of a disease…Section 1714.9Establishes liability for willful or negligent conduct injuring a peace officer, firefighter, or public-entity emergency medical worker in the specified circumstances, including…Section 1714.10Bars pleading an attorney-client civil-conspiracy claim arising from representation in contesting or compromising a dispute unless a court first finds a reasonable…Section 1714.11Exempts public employees and entities donating fire-protection apparatus or equipment to volunteer fire organizations from liability for resulting use, except for damage…Section 1715Establishes that other obligations are prescribed by Divisions I and II of the Code, identifying those divisions as the statutory source for…Section 1716Prohibits soliciting payment through a writing resembling a bill or invoice unless specified conspicuous disclaimers are used, including at least 30-point contrasting…Section 1717Requires reasonable attorney’s fees for the prevailing party in a contract action when the contract provides enforcement fees, regardless of which party…Section 1717.5Allows prevailing-party attorney’s fees in qualifying book-account contract actions entered on or after January 1, 1987, absent a fee clause, unless otherwise…Section 1718Requires farm machinery repair shops to itemize service work, labor, parts, and costs on invoices and, on request, provide per-job written estimates.…Section 1719Establishes liability for insufficient-funds checks equal to the check plus a service charge up to $25 for the first and $35 for…Section 1720Bars an obligee from collecting interest, finance charges, service charges, or similar charges during the period between mailing of an obligor’s qualifying…Section 1721Allows a court, after judgment for the plaintiff in an action for intentional and malicious destruction of real or personal property at…Section 1722Requires 25-plus-employee retailers and cable companies to provide four-hour delivery, service, or repair windows when presence is required. Missing the window may…Section 1723Requires a California retail seller that does not allow full refunds or equal exchanges for at least seven days to conspicuously display…Section 1724Prohibits selling data, or access to data, obtained through commission of a crime and prohibits an unauthorized person from knowingly or reasonably…Section 1725Prohibits a retail seller accepting a negotiable instrument from requiring or recording a credit card or checking available credit, subject to specified…