California Demurrer

Practitioner's guide to CCP § 430.10 — mechanics, strategy, and claim-specific playbooks derived from Orange County and Santa Clara County tentative rulings.

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Load-Bearing Authorities

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Load-Bearing Authorities

Key cases by position from OC and SC tentative rulings. Authorities appearing across multiple judges marked as high-frequency.

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Mechanics

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Mechanics

Meet and confer, format requirements, scope limitations, amendment standards, and procedural rules that apply to every California demurrer.

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Strategy

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Strategy

Using the demurrer to knock out fee-shifting claims, constrain the discovery perimeter, and shape the amendment trajectory.

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Claim Types

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Claim Types

Element-by-element playbooks: breach of contract, implied covenant, statute of limitations, and UCL § 17200.

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Tactical Patterns

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Tactical Patterns

The two most frequent failure modes in the corpus: concession by silence and the wrong vehicle demurrer.

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After the Ruling

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After the Ruling

What sustained-with-leave, sustained-without-leave, and overruled mean — and what you do next in each scenario.

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