As used in this chapter, the term person shall mean and include natural persons, corporations, firms, partnerships, joint stock companies, associations and other organizations of persons.
Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17201
Enforcement
Known as the Unfair Competition Law (UCL)
The act spans §§ 17200–17210 (14 sections).
Applied in 27 court decisions — leading case 39 Cal. 4th 1164 - Wells v. One2One Learning Foundation (2006)
Most recently applied in In re Disposable Contact Lens Antitrust (June 2016)
Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 299.
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.