California Business and Professions Code

§ 6158.1

BPC § 6158.1 Effective Jan 1, 1995Div. 3 · Ch. 4 · Art. 9.5

Statute text

There shall be a rebuttable presumption affecting the burden of producing evidence that the following messages are false, misleading, or deceptive within the meaning of Section 6158:

(a)A message as to the ultimate result of a specific case or cases presented out of context without adequately providing information as to the facts or law giving rise to the result.

(b)The depiction of an event through methods such as the use of displays of injuries, accident scenes, or portrayals of other injurious events which may or may not be accompanied by sound effects and which may give rise to a claim for compensation.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 711, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1995.