5 Cited authorities

  1. Section 1542 - Claims not known by creditor at time of executing release

    Cal. Civ. Code § 1542   Cited 1,606 times   10 Legal Analyses
    Providing that a general release does not extend to unknown claims
  2. Section 1654 - Interpretation against party causing uncertainty

    Cal. Civ. Code § 1654   Cited 671 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Codifying the doctrine of contra proferentem
  3. Section 25249.5 - Prohibition on contaminating drinking water with chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity

    Cal. Health & Saf. Code § 25249.5   Cited 105 times   12 Legal Analyses
    In section 25249.5, they prohibited the "[knowing] discharge or release" of designated toxins " intowater or onto or into land where such chemical passes or probably will pass into any source of drinking water."
  4. Section 25249.7 - Violations; civil penalty

    Cal. Health & Saf. Code § 25249.7   Cited 87 times   6 Legal Analyses

    (a) A person who violates or threatens to violate Section 25249.5 or 25249.6 may be enjoined in any court of competent jurisdiction. (b) (1) A person who has violated Section 25249.5 or 25249.6 is liable for a civil penalty not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per day for each violation in addition to any other penalty established by law. That civil penalty may be assessed and recovered in a civil action brought in any court of competent jurisdiction. (2) In assessing the amount

  5. Section 25249.6 - Required warning before exposure to chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity

    Cal. Health & Saf. Code § 25249.6   Cited 85 times   15 Legal Analyses

    Required Warning Before Exposure To Chemicals Known to Cause Cancer Or Reproductive Toxicity. No person in the course of doing business shall knowingly and intentionally expose any individual to a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity without first giving clear and reasonable warning to such individual, except as provided in Section 25249.10. Ca. Health and Saf. Code § 25249.6 Added November 4, 1986, by initiative Proposition 65. Operative January 1, 1987.