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20 Cited authorities

  1. Business Guides v. Chromatic Comm. Enterprises

    498 U.S. 533 (1991)   Cited 916 times
    Holding that Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 was not a fee-shifting provision because Rule 11 sanctions were not “tied to the outcome of litigation,” instead turning on whether a “specific filing” was well founded, and shifted the costs of a “discrete” portion of the litigation rather than the litigation as a whole

  2. Cel-Tech Communications, Inc. v. Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co.

    20 Cal.4th 163 (Cal. 1999)   Cited 2,452 times   22 Legal Analyses
    Holding that for an act to be "unfair," it must "threaten" a violation of law or "violate the policy or spirit of one of those laws because its effects are comparable to or the same as a violation of the law"

  3. McKell v. Washington Mutual Inc.

    142 Cal.App.4th 1457 (Cal. Ct. App. 2006)   Cited 710 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a loan transaction is a business practice under the UCL

  4. Durell v. Sharp Healthcare

    183 Cal.App.4th 1350 (Cal. Ct. App. 2010)   Cited 543 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that actual reliance is an element of CUCL claims under the unlawful prong

  5. Saunders v. Superior Court

    27 Cal.App.4th 832 (Cal. Ct. App. 1994)   Cited 548 times
    Finding that aiding and abetting requires actual knowledge

  6. Tarmann v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

    2 Cal.App.4th 153 (Cal. Ct. App. 1991)   Cited 494 times
    Holding that, when suing a corporate defendant for fraud, a plaintiff must include “the names of the persons who made the allegedly fraudulent representations, their authority to speak, to whom they spoke, what they said or wrote, and when it was said or written”

  7. Khoury v. Maly's of California, Inc.

    14 Cal.App.4th 612 (Cal. Ct. App. 1993)   Cited 383 times
    Holding that " demurrer for uncertainty is strictly construed, even where a complaint is in some respects uncertain, because ambiguities can be clarified under modern discovery procedures."

  8. Puentes v. Wells Fargo Home Mortg., Inc.

    160 Cal.App.4th 638 (Cal. Ct. App. 2008)   Cited 153 times
    Defining "unfair," "unlawful" and "fraudulent" practices under California's UCL

  9. Bockrath v. Aldrich Chemical Co.

    21 Cal.4th 71 (Cal. 1999)   Cited 169 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that in cases that require resolving "complicated . . . medical causation issues, the standard of proof ordinarily required is a reasonable medical probability based upon competent expert testimony that the defendant's conduct contributed to the plaintiff's injury"

  10. Wilson v. Hynek

    207 Cal.App.4th 999 (Cal. Ct. App. 2012)   Cited 73 times
    Holding that plaintiffs failed to plead outrageous conduct, given that "this was a creditor/debtor situation, whereby the defendants were exercising their rights under the loan agreements. There are no allegations that in conducting the foreclosure proceedings any of the defendants threatened, insulted, abused or humiliated the [plaintiffs]"

  11. Rule 11 - Signing Pleadings, Motions, and Other Papers; Representations to the Court; Sanctions

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 11   Cited 36,629 times   145 Legal Analyses
    Holding an "unrepresented party" to the same standard as an attorney

  12. Rule 5 - Serving and Filing Pleadings and Other Papers

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 5   Cited 22,753 times   16 Legal Analyses
    Allowing service by filing papers with the court's electronic-filing system

  13. Section 17200 - Unfair competition defined

    Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200   Cited 18,123 times   315 Legal Analyses
    Prohibiting unlawful business practices

  14. Section 17204 - Actions for Injunctions by Attorney General, District Attorney, County Counsel, and City Attorneys

    Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17204   Cited 979 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Allowing actions brought by "any person who has suffered injury in fact and has lost money or property"

  15. Section 2923.6 - Agreement by mortgage servicer to implement loan modification or workout plan

    Cal. Civ. Code § 2923.6   Cited 879 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Authorizing a lender to pursue foreclosure against a defaulted borrower if "[t]he borrower accepts a written first lien loan modification, but defaults on, or otherwise breaches the borrower's obligations under, the first lien loan modification"

  16. Section 128.7 - Attorney or unrepresented party to sign pleadings, petitions, notice, etc.; certification; sanctions for violations

    Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 128.7   Cited 760 times   8 Legal Analyses
    Requiring that allegations in the pleading, "to the best of the person's knowledge, information, and belief...have evidentiary support or, if specifically so identified, are likely to have evidentiary support after a reasonable opportunity for further investigation or discovery"