This title shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes, which are to protect consumers against unfair and deceptive business practices and to provide efficient and economical procedures to secure such protection.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1760
Construction and Definitions
Known as the Consumers Legal Remedies Act (CLRA)
The act spans §§ 1750 to 1784 (15 sections).
Applied in 55 court decisions — leading case 142 Cal. App. 4th 1457 - McKell v. Washington Mut., Inc. (2006)
Most recently applied in Justin Lytle v. Nutramax Laboratories, Inc. (April 2024)
Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1550.
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.