Any person or trade association may bring an action to enjoin and restrain any violation of this chapter and, in addition thereto, for the recovery of damages.
Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17070
Civil Liability
Known as the Unfair Practices Act
The act spans §§ 17000–17101 (53 sections).
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case 83 Cal. App. 4th 677 - Coast Plaza Doctors Hospital v. Blue Cross (2000)
Most recently applied in 190 Cal. App. 4th 668 - Doe v. Albany Unified School District (November 2010)
Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 526.
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.