STOP YOUTH ADDICTION, INC., Plaintiff and Appellant,
v.
LUCKY STORES, INC., Defendant and Respondent.
Supreme Court of California.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
February 23, 1998.
February 23, 1998.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
COUNSEL
Donald P. Driscoll and William M. Henley for Plaintiff and Appellant.
Louise H. Renne, City Attorney (San Francisco), Dennis Aftergut, Chief Assistant City Attorney, Elizabeth D. Laporte, Andrew Y.S. Cheng and Jayne C. Lee, Deputy City Attorneys, Scot D. Bernstein, Richard F. Ellers and Eric Berliner as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Gail E. Lees, Richard D. Gluck, John A. Arguelles and Lincoln D. Bandlow for Defendant and Respondent.
Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Thomas F. Gede, Assistant Attorney General, Fred J. Hiestand, Fred L. Main, Daniel J. Popeo, Paul D. Kamenar, Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, Jeffrey B. Margulies, Livingston & Mattesich, Carol Livingston, Gene Livingston, Horvitz & Levy, Lisa Perrochet, David M. Axelrad, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Charlotte A. Lowell, Rogers, Joseph, O'Donnell & Quinn, Renee D. Wasserman and Sean M. SeLegue as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.
Dean Flippo, District Attorney (Monterey), Lydia Villarreal, Deputy District Attorney, Thomas J. Orloff, District Attorney (Alameda), Christopher C. Carpenter, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrence G. Brown, James C. Sturdevant, Ian Herzog, Mary E. Alexander, Bruce A. Broillet, David S. Casey, Jr., Deborah David, Douglas Devries, Laurence E. Drivon, Thor Emblem, Joseph F. Harbison III, Steven J. Kleifield, Harvey R. Levine, Moses Lebovits, Wayne McClean, David A. Rosen, Leonard Sacks, Daniel U. Smith, Chris Spagnoli, Robert B. Steinberg, Tony Tanke, Lea-Ann Tratten, Rick Simons, Thomas G. Stoplman, William D. Turley, Roland Wrinkle, Earl Lui, Kenneth W. Babcock, Kathleen A. Michon, Richard A. Rothschild, Bet Tzedek Legal Services and David A. Lash as Amici Curiae.
Supreme Court of California.
OPINION
WERDEGAR, J.
The question presented is whether a private, for-profit corporation may maintain on behalf of the general public an unfair competition action against a retailer that, in violation of the Penal Code, sells cigarettes to minors. We conclude such an action is authorized under Business and Professions Code1 sections 17200 through 17209 (the...
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