Offenses Against the Chapter
Known as the Unfair Practices Act
The act spans §§ 17000–17101 (53 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Chicago Title Insurance v. Great Western Financial Corp. (1968)
Most recently applied in 134 Cal. App. 4th 290 - Eddins v. Redstone (November 2005)
Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 526.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Nothing in this chapter prohibits any of the following:
(a) A selection of customers.
(b) A functional classification by any person of any customer as broker, jobber, wholesaler or retailer.
(c) A differential in price for any article or product as between any customers in different functional classifications.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.