This chapter may be cited as the “Unruh Act.”
Cal. Civ. Code § 1801
General Provisions
Known as the Unruh Act
The act spans §§ 1801 to 1812.9 (87 sections).
Applied in 29 court decisions — leading case 2 Cal. 4th 1254 - Bank of the West v. Superior Court (1992)
Most recently applied in 222 Cal. App. 4th 596 - Ruiz v. California State Automobile Ass'n Inter-Insurance Bureau (December 2013)
Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 201.
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.