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Yuba Power Products, Inc, was a California torts case in which the Supreme Court of California dealt with the torts regarding product liability and warranty breaches. The primary legal issue of the case was to determine whether a manufacturer is strictly liable in tort when an article he places on the market proves to have a defect that causes ...
If the buyer wants to take the case to court, they may have grounds to sue the seller for breach of contract. Legal action can be expensive and time-consuming, however, and it may not result in a ...
Selling as-is doesn’t excuse you from disclosing known defects. For example, if you know there’s a mold problem or a crack in the foundation , you’re legally obligated to inform the buyer.
A Pennsylvania woman has appealed to the state Supreme Court in her lawsuit against a homeseller and real estate agent who failed to disclose that a murder-suicide had taken place in the house she ...
The bill passed the California State Assembly 67-4 and the California State Senate 30-4 before being signed by Governor Jerry Brown. After AB 1215 went into effect, car and truck dealers in California could charge up to $80 per new or used purchase/leased vehicle transaction, up from $55 for vehicle purchase transactions and $45 for lease ...
(6) Finally, as a result of the transaction, the person or property of the purchaser is placed under the control of the seller, subject to the risk of carelessness by the seller or his agents. If a contract both meets these factors and includes liability waivers, it may be held to be invalid and unenforceable as a matter of law and policy.
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and the Supreme Court of California as the source of the doctrine. Although Henningsen helped articulate the rationale for the then-imminent shift from implied warranty to strict liability as the dominant theory of American product liability , the case never actually imposes "strict liability" or "absolute liability" for ...
Case history; Prior: 226 Cal. Rptr. 448 (Cal. App. 1986); reversed, 47 Cal.3d 1152, 255 Cal.Rptr. 542, 767 P.2d 1020 (1989); cert. granted, 493 U.S. 806 (1989)Holding; Attorneys may be required to be members of a state bar association, but compulsory membership dues collected by the association may be used only to regulate the legal profession or improve the quality of legal services in the state.