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INTERNAL PROTOTYPE — NOT LEGAL ADVICE — DO NOT SEND

Section 17535

Citation
Section 17535
Parent Document
Kraus v. Trinity Management Services, Inc., 999 P.2d 718 (2000)
Jurisdiction
California (state)
Effective Date
2000-06-05

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*158“It cannot be too often repeated that due respect for the political branches of our government requires us to interpret the laws in accordance with the expressed intention of the Legislature. ‘This court has no power to rewrite the statute so as to make it conform to a presumed intention which is not expressed.’” (California Teachers Assn. v. Governing Bd. of Rialto Unified School Dist. (1997) 14 Cal.4th 627, 633 [59 Cal.Rptr.2d 671, 927 P.2d 1175].) The majority today transgresses that fundamental principle, judicially rewriting the UCL to include a partial ban on fluid recovery that the Legislature neither expressed nor intended. Due process