Product Description
No longer will you have to sift through opinion after opinion to find one that recites all the elements of a cause of action. California Causes of Action delivers both the elements and the supporting decisions, plus affirmative defenses, related causes of action, remedies, and statutes of limitations. Many of the causes of action are supported by full-text sample complaints in print and via Digital Access. This useful resource will help you draft pleadings, conduct discovery, marshal evidence, prepare jury instructions, make and respond to motions, and prepare appellate briefs for over 125 causes of action in 19 practice categories:
- Negligence
- Emotional Distress
- Physical Torts
- Procedural Torts
- Fraud and Negligent Misrepresentation
- Products Liability/Commercial Sales
- Debtor-Creditor: Fraudulent Transfers
- Business Torts and Actions
- Real Property Torts
- Real Estate Broker
- Contract Actions
- Defamation and Privacy
- Employment
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- Animal Torts
- Construction Torts
- Governmental Tort Liability
- Wrongful Death/Survival Actions
California Causes of Action helps you avoid the cost, hassle, and risk of a demurrer by providing clear explanations of each element and annotated case notes—the clear framework will help you draft nearly invincible pleadings. Drafting an answer or a cross-complaint is also a breeze. With the detailed affirmative defenses for each cause of action, you’ll never second-guess the strength of your response again. Write with ease and confidence; write with California Causes of Action. California Causes of Action is not just a drafting tool to help you craft winning pleadings. It is an indispensable litigation tool you can use to ensure you have covered all the bases in your pre-suit investigation; in planning, preparing, and responding to discovery; in drafting motions; and in preparing jury instructions.
REVISION 21 HIGHLIGHTS
California Causes of Action will help you work more efficiently and effectively in all phases of pleading your case, whether you are drafting a complaint, answer or demurrer, or bringing or responding to a motion that will shape and define the parameters of the case. The 2020 edition is loaded with new forms and case law to keep you up to date on a broad range of legal topics, including:
NEGLIGENCE
- Special relationships
- Vicarious liability
- Non-delegable duty
PRODUCTS LIABILITY AND COMMERCIAL SALES
BUSINESS TORTS AND ACTIONS
- Unfair competition under Business & Professions Code §17200
- Discrimination under the Unruh Civil Rights Act
- False advertising under Business & Professions Code §17500
- Conversion
BUSINESS TORTS AND ACTIONS
- Broker liability to purchaser for intentional nondisclosure of material facts
- Broker’s constructive fraud
- Escrow agent’s negligence and constructive fraud
DEFAMATION AND PRIVACY
- Libel
- Public disclosure of private facts
- Commercial misappropriation of likeness under Civil Code §3344
- False light
INSURANCE
- Breach of insurance contract
- Insurer’s breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing
NEW FORMS
- Action to Quiet Title
- Complaint: Slander of Title
- Complaint: Tortious Interference with Contract
- Complaint: Public Disclosure of Private Facts.
- Complaint: False Light
– Revision 17
– Access to digital forms via an emailed zip file
– ISBN: 978-0-938065-90-6
Chapter 1: Negligence
Chapter 2: Emotional Distress
Chapter 3: Physical Torts
Chapter 4: Procedural Torts
Chapter 5: Fraud and Negligent Misrepresentation
Chapter 6: Products Liability and Commercial Sales
Chapter 7: Debtor/Creditor: Fraudulent Transfers
Chapter 8: Business Torts and Actions
Chapter 9: Real Property Torts
Chapter 10: Real Estate Broker, Escrow Agent and Notary Liability
Chapter 11: Contract Actions
Chapter 12: Defamation and Privacy
Chapter 13: Insurance
Chapter 14: Employment
Chapter 15: Intellectual Property
Chapter 16: Animal Torts
Chapter 17: Industrial Injury/Third Party Cases
Chapter 18: Governmental Tort Liability
Chapter 19: Wrongful Death/Survival Action
Chapter 20: Family Law
Chapter 21: Defenses
Appendix A
Table of Cases
Index
Stanton T. Mathews, ESQ.
Stanton “Terry” Mathews is the principal in the trial law specialty firm, Stanton T. Mathews & Associates, located in Orange County, California. The firm focuses its expertise on the prosecution of civil wrongdoers, individual, corporate and governmental, whose conduct causes personal injury and economic loss. Practicing law for more than 30 years, Mr. Mathews is an AV-rated trial lawyer, and a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, an invitation-only national association of experienced trial lawyers and judges. He is a selected member of the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers in America, and his jury verdicts seat him with the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum.
Mr. Mathews is a well-known lecturer on trial practice in all of its phases, lecturing for more than 20 years to the Orange County Bar Association, among others. He is a member of such trial organizations as the American Association for Justice, Consumer Attorneys of California, the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association, and the Western Trial Lawyers Association. You can learn more at www.mathewsfirm.com.
Anoush Lancaster, ESQ.
Anoush Lancaster is an attorney at Stebner & Associates in San Francisco, California. She litigates complex catastrophic injury cases involving negligence, wrongful death, products liability, elder abuse, mishandling of remains, industrial accidents and exceptions to the workers’ compensation exclusive remedy doctrine.
Ms. Lancaster is a member of San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, Alameda Contra Costa Trial Lawyers, Consumer Attorneys of California, California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, and American Association of Justice. She currently serves on the Board of Governors for Consumer Attorneys of California and is the president of Consumer Attorneys of California’s Women’s Caucus.
Anoush has been selected annually by her peers as a SuperLawyer and one of Northern California’s top women attorneys since 2015. She is a faculty member of the Tort and Trial series, which reviews all California and U.S. Supreme Court and appellate cases bearing on tort and trial practice. Ms. Lancaster’s articles appear in various legal publications and she is a frequent lecturer on a variety of topics. She was a finalist for San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association’s 2013 and 2014 Trial Lawyer of the Year and Consumer Attorneys of California’s 2015 Trial Lawyer of the Year. She has co-tried cases in Solano, Monterey, Sacramento, and Fresno counties to succesful plaintiffs’ verdicts. Her Fresno case is the largest wrongful death verdict in Fresno county in the last decade.
FactChecker –
It is nice having it all in one volume, plus the cd. This saves me so much time I am amazed.
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R. Hall –
If you ever file or answer a complaint in California, this volume is an essential addition to your library. In a concise yet surprisingly thorough format, this publication sets forth the essential elements of hundreds of California Causes of Action. Defenses to many causes are also offered. Recently the publisher added a “cloud” version of the forms contained in the volume. This resource will save many hours in drafting complaints and demurrers and it is carefully researched with numerous case and statutory cites. This treatise is well organized, easily accessible and is a valuable checklist of Causes that can sometimes be overlooked. I heartily recommend it!
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June Dickson –
This is a great book for pro pers and those practising law (It’s practical)
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