Notwithstanding Section 3369 of the Civil Code, specific or preventive relief may be granted to enforce a penalty, forfeiture, or penal law in a case of unfair competition.
Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17202
Enforcement
Known as the Unfair Competition Law (UCL)
The act spans §§ 17200–17210 (14 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 171 Cal. App. 4th 1305 - Troyk v. Farmers Group, Inc. (2009)
Most recently applied in GameStop, Inc. v. Superior Court of Riverside Cnty. (August 2018)
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.