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Cal. Civ. Code § 1788

General Provisions

Known as the Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

The act spans §§ 1788–1788 (22 sections).

Applied in 119 court decisions — leading case 183 Cal. App. 4th 1350 - Durell v. Sharp Healthcare (2010)

Most recently applied in N. L. v. Credit One Bank, N.A. (June 2020)

Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 375, Sec. 5

How often courts cite this section

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citing decisions per year

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.

This title may be cited as the Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.