In any action for damages based on negligence, a person may not recover any damages if the plaintiff’s injuries were in any way proximately caused by the plaintiff’s commission of any felony, or immediate flight therefrom, and the plaintiff has been duly convicted of that felony.
Cal. Civ. Code § 3333.3
Damages for Wrongs
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 19 Cal. 4th 532 - Wiley v. County of San Diego (1998)
Most recently applied in Tug Valley Pharmacy, LLC v. All Below (May 2015)
Added November 5, 1996, by initiative Proposition 213, Sec. 3
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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.