False imprisonment is the unlawful violation of the personal liberty of another.
Cal. Penal Code § 236
False Imprisonment and Human Trafficking
Applied in 180 court decisions — leading case Morris v. Slappy (1983)
Most recently applied in 229 F. Supp. 3d 1075 - Sud v. Costco Wholesale Corp. (January 2017)
Enacted 1872.
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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.