 On December 29, 2009, the California Court of Appeal for the Sixth District ruled that California Code of Civil Procedure Section 367 cannot be read as imposing a federal-style standing doctrine on California's code pleading system of civil procedure.In California, the fundamental inquiry is "always" whether the plaintiff has sufficiently plead a cause of action, not whether the plaintiff has some entitlement to judicial action separate from proof of the substantive merits of the claim advanced.The court acknowledged that the word "standing" is often sloppily used to refer to what is really "jus tertii", and held that "jus tertii" in state law is not the same thing as the federal standing doctrine.