Langer

I.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Langer filed a lawsuit against Chao alleging a violation of the Unruh Civil Rights Act (Civ. Code § 51 et seq.) (the Unruh Act) based on the alleged absence of closed captioning on videos appearing on the website for

Chao’s cosmetic and reconstructive surgery practice.1 Langer subsequently obtained entry of default against Chao. Langer then applied to the trial court to obtain a default judgment. The Unruh Act states that a prevailing plaintiff may be awarded statutory

Langer did not include his complaint in the appellate record. It is an appellant’s burden to provide an adequate record on appeal. (Jameson v. Desta (2018) 5 Cal.5th 594, 609.) Without the complaint, we lack a full understanding of the claims asserted in Langer’s lawsuit or the relief that he sought. However, because other documents in the appellate record represent that Langer’s lawsuit was based on alleged violations of the Unruh Act, we assume, although we cannot verify, that Langer’s lawsuit alleged a cause of action under the Unruh Act. In the unique circumstance of this appeal, we are able to determine that the trial court erred, even though we do not have a…