Holding class representatives had standing to challenge common marketing of cigarettes despite differences in the advertisements or statements on which class members relied
Holding the "narrow" exception to the economic loss rule is "limited to a defendant's affirmative misrepresentations on which a plaintiff relies and which expose a plaintiff to liability for personal damages."
Holding that "trespass to chattels is not actionable if it does not involve actual or threatened injury" to property and the defendant's actions did not damage or interfere with the operation of the computer systems at issue
Holding that plaintiff adequately stated UCL claim by alleging that defendant engaged in intentional interference with plaintiff's employment contracts
203 Cal.App.4th 717 (Cal. Ct. App. 2012) Cited 126 times
Holding physician-patient privilege does not apply to nurses or other medical staff working under physician's supervision or acting as physician's agent
179 Cal.App.4th 949 (Cal. Ct. App. 2009) Cited 80 times
Holding "legislative purpose of former section 439, the predecessor of section 426.30 . . . was to provide for the settlement, in a single action, of all conflicting claims between the parties arising out of the same transaction" and to "avoid a multiplicity of actions"
73 F. Supp. 3d 1191 (N.D. Cal. 2014) Cited 60 times 1 Legal Analyses
Finding Plaintiffs sufficiently alleged injury in fact where "Plaintiff allege[d] that Apple's interference with the receipt of her text messages deprived her of the full benefit of her contractual bargain with Verizon Wireless"