AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion

Holding that a ban on collective-action waivers in those contracts worked to "disfavor arbitration"

Starr v. Baca

Holding that a series of investigative reports documenting systemic deficiencies in a jail put the defendant-supervisor on notice of the risk of the harm that befell the plaintiff

Eminence Capital, LLC v. Aspeon, Inc.

Holding that the district court abused its discretion because "[d]ismissal with prejudice and without leave to amend is not appropriate unless it is clear on de novo review that the complaint could not be saved by amendment"

Galbraith v. County of Santa Clara

Holding that plaintiff's allegations that a coroner's knowingly or recklessly false statements led to his arrest and prosecution were sufficient to state a § 1983 claim

In re Tobacco II Cases

Holding class representatives had standing to challenge common marketing of cigarettes despite differences in the advertisements or statements on which class members relied

Cook, Perkiss Liehe v. N.C. Collection Serv

Holding that an advertisement that "impl[ies] lower rates and better services than those of a competitor . . . constitutes puffery and is not actionable as false advertising"

Iskanian v. CSL Transportation Los Angeles, LLC

Holding that arbitration provisions banning class-action litigation or collective arbitration of employment-related claims are enforceable under the NLRA and the FAA's saving clause, but also holding that arbitration provisions banning representative claims under California's Private Attorneys General Act violates that Act

Reddy v. Litton Industries, Inc.

Holding that employee fired for refusing to participate in cover-up of illegal scheme lacked standing to assert civil RICO claim against employer

Kwai Fun Wong v. United States

Holding that entry fiction does not preclude claims under the equal-protection component of the Due Process Clause

Klein v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc.

Holding that consumers could not maintain unjust enrichment claim based on retail purchases of gasoline, which they alleged were enforceable contractual relationships, where their unjust enrichment claim did not deny the existence or enforceability of the agreements

Rule 8 - General Rules of Pleading

Holding that "[e]very defense to a claim for relief in any pleading must be asserted in the responsive pleading. . . ."

Rule 9 - Pleading Special Matters

Permitting "[m]alice, intent, knowledge, and other conditions of a person's mind [to] be alleged generally"

Section 3294 - When damages recoverable for sake of example and by way of punishment; employer liability for acts of employee; death from homicide

Stating plaintiff may recover punitive damages "in addition to the actual damages"

Section 1856 - Contradiction of terms of agreement by evidence of prior agreement or contemporaneous oral agreement; evidence explaining or supplementing terms

Codifying the use of "course of performance" evidence as extrinsic evidence

Section 1710 - Deceit defined

Defining "deceit"

Section 1670.5 - Contract or clause unconscionable

Adopting UCC section 2-302 and making it generally applicable to all contracts

Section 1709 - Willfully deceiving another

Requiring willful deception

Section 1671 - Validity of liquidated damages provision

Invalidating unreasonable liquidated damages

Section 1442 - Strict interpretation of condition involving forfeiture