Sections
14 entriesSection 425.10Requires a complaint or cross-complaint to state the facts supporting the cause of action in ordinary, concise language and demand the requested…Section 425.11Allows a personal-injury or wrongful-death defendant to request a statement of the nature and amount of damages, requiring the plaintiff to respond…Section 425.115Requires a plaintiff seeking punitive damages in a default judgment to serve the defendant, before default, with a statement reserving punitive damages…Section 425.12Requires the Judicial Council to develop official trial-court forms for complaints, cross-complaints, and answers in specified common actions and a damages statement…Section 425.13Bars pleading punitive damages in a health-care professional-negligence action unless the court permits an amended pleading after a motion showing substantial probability…Section 425.14Bars a complaint or other pleading from claiming punitive or exemplary damages against a religious corporation or corporation sole unless the court…Section 425.15Bars a negligence claim against an uncompensated director or officer of a qualifying nonprofit for acts within official duties unless a court…Section 425.16Allows a special motion to strike claims arising from petition or speech activity unless the plaintiff shows a probability of prevailing; the…Section 425.17Exempts qualifying public-interest actions and specified commercial-speech claims from the anti-SLAPP procedure when stated conditions are met. The exemptions do not cover…Section 425.18Sets special anti-SLAPP rules for a SLAPPback, allowing a motion within 120 days after complaint service, up to six months in the…Section 425.19Allows defendants challenging suits over qualifying priority housing developments to file a special motion to strike, within 60 days, with a hearing…Section 425.30Prohibits use of common counts in actions collecting consumer debt arising from qualifying personal, family, or household transactions incurred on or after…Section 425.50Requires construction-related accessibility complaints to identify each barrier, how access was denied or deterred, and each relevant date, and generally to be…Section 425.55Defines a high-frequency construction-accessibility litigant as a plaintiff filing at least 10 qualifying complaints in the preceding 12 months or an attorney…