California Causes of Action

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 22 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 2021 edition is loaded with new case law to keep you up to date on a broad range of legal topics, including:

NEGLIGENCE 

• Special relationships: crematorium/pet owner; jailer/prisoner; officers/arrestees
• Medical malpractice: non-economic damages under MICRA
• Premises liability

PRODUCTS LIABILITY AND COMMERCIAL SALES

• Civil assault and battery
• False imprisonment / false arrest

BUSINESS TORTS AND ACTIONS

• Conversion, including the related cause of action for civil theft

PRODUCTS LIABILITY AND COMMERCIAL SALES

• Strict products liability: manufacturing or design defect
• Strict products liability: failure to warn
• Products liability: negligence

CONTRACT ACTIONS

• Failure of consideration or failure to perform
• Breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing
• Promissory estoppel
• Unjust enrichment
• Quantum meruit

INSURANCE

• Exhaustion of administrative remedies
• Classification of ride-share riders as employees
• Sexual orientation discrimination

GOVERNMENTAL TORT LIABILITY

• When filing a claim is not required: claims of sexual abuse of a minor
• Public entity liability: dangerous condition of public property
• Public entity liability: acts and omissions of employees

WRONGFUL DEATH / SURVIVAL ACTIONS

• Survival actions – statute of limitations; affirmative defenses
• Wrongful death – liability for death caused by another; statute of limitations