24 Cited authorities

  1. In re Harris

    5 Cal.4th 813 (Cal. 1993)   Cited 900 times
    Holding habeas corpus is available in cases where the court has acted in excess of its jurisdiction
  2. Martinez v. Combs

    49 Cal.4th 35 (Cal. 2010)   Cited 478 times   45 Legal Analyses
    Holding that California's wage and hour laws do not impose liability on "individual corporate agents acting within the scope of their agency"
  3. Garcia v. McCutchen

    16 Cal.4th 469 (Cal. 1997)   Cited 349 times
    Holding that implied repeal will be found only when there is no rational basis for harmonizing two potentially conflicting statutes
  4. S.G. Borello & Sons, Inc. v. Dep't of Indus. Relations

    48 Cal.3d 341 (Cal. 1989)   Cited 444 times   127 Legal Analyses
    Holding that temporary “sharefarmers” were employees entitled to workers' compensation coverage
  5. Moyer v. Workmen's Comp. Appeals Bd.

    10 Cal.3d 222 (Cal. 1973)   Cited 534 times
    Finding statutes should be construed in light of the statutory framework as a whole
  6. People v. Overstreet

    42 Cal.3d 891 (Cal. 1986)   Cited 284 times
    Reasoning that a statute should be construed "as favorably to the defendant as its language and the circumstance of its application reasonably permit"
  7. Adkins v. Children's Hospital

    261 U.S. 525 (1923)   Cited 347 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding a minimum-wage law "so clearly the product of a naked, arbitrary exercise of power that it cannot be allowed to stand under the Constitution of the United States"
  8. Gabin v. Skyline Cabana Club

    54 N.J. 550 (N.J. 1969)   Cited 92 times
    Explaining that title of statute may indicate a legislative intent to apply narrowly the broad language of the enactment
  9. Cal. Drive-In Restaurant Assn. v. Clark

    22 Cal.2d 287 (Cal. 1943)   Cited 141 times
    Noting that the same rules of construction and interpretation apply to regulations of administrative agencies
  10. American Tobacco Co. v. Superior Court

    208 Cal.App.3d 480 (Cal. Ct. App. 1989)   Cited 27 times
    Construing a statute similar to Ohio Rev. Code § 2307.75