Brooks was an employee at AmeriHome. His
employment contract included an arbitration clause. It states
that “any dispute or controversy arising out of or relating to this
Agreement or your employment . . . will be settled exclusively by
arbitration . . . in accordance with, and pursuant, to the National
Rules of Resolution of Employment Disputes of the American
Arbitration

Health and Safety Code section 127677, enacted as part of
Senate Bill No. 17 (Stats. 2017, ch. 603, § 4), requires
pharmaceutical manufacturers to provide 60-days’ notice to
public and private registered purchasers, including state entities
and health insurers, before increasing the wholesale acquisition
cost of a drug (we will refer to the notice as a “price increase
notic

Health and Safety Code section 127677, enacted as part of
Senate Bill No. 17 (Stats. 2017, ch. 603, § 4), requires
pharmaceutical manufacturers to provide 60-days’ notice to
public and private registered purchasers, including state entities
and health insurers, before increasing the wholesale acquisition
cost of a drug (we will refer to the notice as a “price increase
notic

1. The Legal Background: General Principles
The California Coastal Act (the Coastal Act) was passed in
1976. (Pub. Resources Code, § 30000 et seq.)
1 It is
“a comprehensive scheme to govern land use planning for the
entire coastal zone of California.” (Yost v. Thomas (1984) 36 Cal.3d
561, 565 (Yost).) The Coastal Act requires “all local governments
lying in whole or in

Plaintiff and appellant Dolores Tarin (Dolores) appeals
from the judgment after the trial court granted three judgments
on the pleadings in favor of defendants and respondents Rochelle
Lind (Rochelle) and Jesse Tarin (Jesse)1 (collectively,
defendants), and Dolores dismissed her remaining claims.
Dolores alleged that defendants interfered in Dolores’s
relationship with her