Month: October 2019

The State Bar of California has conducted the first comprehensive statewide study on the need for civil legal assistance in California.  The findings are disturbing: 55 percent of Californians at all income levels experienced at least one civil legal issue in their household within the past year, yet nearly 70 percent of them received no …

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Liquidated damages will be upheld unless unreasonable.  It is so when it “bears no reasonable relationship to the range of actual damages that the parties could have anticipated would flow from a breach.”  Ridgley v. Topa Thrift & Loan Assn., 17 Cal.4th 970, 977 (Cal. App. 1998). In a recent case, lenders lent $1.8 million to …

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