Negligence: controlled substances: social media companies.

Existing law, the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act, classifies controlled substances into 5 schedules and imposes restrictions or prohibitions on various actions related to those substances, including their sale, possession, transportation, manufacture, or cultivation. Existing civil law provides that everyone is responsible not only for the result of their willful acts, but also for an injury occasioned to another by their want of ordinary care or skill in the management of their property or person, except so far as the latter has, willfully or by want of ordinary care, brought the injury upon themselves. This bill would entitle a person who suffers injury that is proximately caused by the illegal purchase of a controlled substance through a social media platform, as defined, to recover specified statutory and actual damages if it is shown that the injury was occasioned, in whole or in part, by the want of ordinary care or skill in the management of the platform pursuant to the above-described civil law provision. The bill would also entitle a prevailing plaintiff to reasonable attorney's fees and costs. The bill would state that its provisions are severable. The bill would make related findings and declarations.