Carlson v. McCoy

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a statute providing for treble actual damages is penal
• security deposit law providing for actual and treble damages is both penal and remedial in nature
• statutory action for treble damages based on landlord’s failure to comply with security deposit law is penal for purposes of one year statute of limitations because treble damages award constitutes an independent statutory “penalty or forfeiture”
• statutory action for treble damages based on landlord's failure to comply with security deposit law is penal for purposes of one year statute of limitations because treble damages award constitutes an independent statutory \penalty or forfeiture\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).