Any action to enforce any cause of action pursuant to this chapter shall be commenced within four years after the cause of action accrued. No cause of action barred under existing law on the effective date of this section shall be revived by its enactment.
Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17208
Enforcement
Known as the Unfair Competition Law (UCL)
The act spans §§ 17200–17210 (14 sections).
Applied in 108 court decisions — leading case Aryeh v. Canon Business Solutions, Inc. (2013)
Most recently applied in Djeneba Sidibe v. Sutter Health (June 2024)
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.