Holding that defendant attorney owed no duty to third parties who relied on faulty advice the attorney gave his clients "in the absence of any showing that the legal advice was foreseeably transmitted to or relied upon by plaintiffs or that plaintiffs were intended beneficiaries of a transaction to which the advice pertained"
231 Cal.App.4th 93 (Cal. Ct. App. 2014) Cited 35 times
Finding that lack of consent must be alleged in a statutory invasion of privacy claim under California Civil Code section 3344, a statute that prohibits the commercial use of a person's name or likeness “without such person's prior consent”
76 Cal.App.4th 990 (Cal. Ct. App. 1999) Cited 57 times
Holding that a two-year statute of limitations applies to a cause of action for quantum meruit, pursuant to § 339 of the California Code of Civil Procedure
192 Cal.App.4th 742 (Cal. Ct. App. 2011) Cited 36 times
In Jackson, the Court of Appeal analyzed a similar statutory provision requiring a certificate of merit in an action for damages based on childhood sexual assault (see section 340.1) that was modeled after section 411.35. (Jackson, at p. 751, fn. 5.)
83 Cal.App.4th 1061 (Cal. Ct. App. 2000) Cited 5 times
In Leyva, a prison inmate filed a personal injury action against the chair of the Board of Prison Terms after the Board conducted a parole hearing for the inmate and declined to release him.