State Court of Appeals / Cal. Ct. App.

Lavie v. Procter & Gamble Co.

Decided January 17, 2003. John Anthony Kline wrote the opinion for the court.

129 Cal. Rptr. 2d 486 · Cited 215 times

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Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

Chern v. Bank of America · 544 P.2d 1310
Bank of the West v. Superior Court · 833 P.2d 545
Haskell v. Time, Inc. · 857 F. Supp. 1392
Committee on Children's Television, Inc. v. General Foods Corp. · 673 P.2d 660
Fisher v. City of Berkeley · 693 P.2d 261
Cel-Tech Communications, Inc. v. Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co. · 973 P.2d 527
Quelimane Co. v. Stewart Title Guaranty Co. · 960 P.2d 513
Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Education Society · 302 U.S. 112
South Bay Chevrolet v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · 85 Cal. Rptr. 2d 301
E. L. White, Inc. v. City of Huntington Beach · 579 P.2d 505
Dept. of Agriculture v. Tide Oil Co. · 269 Cal. App. 2d 145
State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Superior Court · 45 Cal. App. 4th 1093
Barquis v. Merchants Collection Assn. · 496 P.2d 817
Day v. AT & T CORP. · 74 Cal. Rptr. 2d 55
AICCO, Inc. v. Insurance Co. of North America · 109 Cal. Rptr. 2d 359
Auto Equity Sales, Inc. v. Superior Court · 57 Cal. 2d 450
Rubin v. Green · 847 P.2d 1044
Manufacturers Life Insurance v. Superior Court · 895 P.2d 56
Sunset House Distributing Corp. v. Coffee Dan's, Inc. · 240 Cal. App. 2d 748
Schnall v. Hertz Corporation · 93 Cal. Rptr. 2d 439
California Association for Safety Education v. Brown · 30 Cal. App. 4th 1264
People v. Superior Court (Olson) · 96 Cal. App. 3d 181
Prata v. Superior Court · 111 Cal. Rptr. 2d 296
Younger v. State of California · 137 Cal. App. 3d 806
State Board of Funeral Directors v. Mortuary in Westminster Memorial Park · 271 Cal. App. 2d 638

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McKell v. Washington Mutual, Inc. · 142 Cal. App. 4th 1457
Chapman v. Skype, Inc. · 220 Cal. App. 4th 217
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Buckland v. Threshold Enterprises, Ltd. · 66 Cal. Rptr. 3d 543
Aron v. U-Haul Co. of California · 49 Cal. Rptr. 3d 555
McKell v. Washington Mut., Inc. · 49 Cal. Rptr. 3d 227
In Re Firearm Cases · 24 Cal. Rptr. 3d 659
Neilson v. City of California City · 35 Cal. Rptr. 3d 453
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