Litigation & Arbitration
Nov. 20, 2023
CAOC takes aim at ruling on school districts
One of the most significant aspects of the ruling was that it means schools are not subject to the Unruh Act’s provisions allowing for treble damages.
On the heels of a successful effort to raise the cap on medical malpractice damages, the politically powerful Consumer Attorneys of California opened their annual meeting in San Francisco with a salvo against a 2022 court opinion.
“The Unruh Civil Rights Act was gutted by the California Supreme Court,” Christa H. Ramey, of Ramey Law PC in Playa del Rey, said Friday during a panel discussion entitled “Taking on the State: The Intricacies of ...