District Cablevision Limited Partnership v. Bassin

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a liquidated damages clause specifying a single sum for all contractual breaches that bore no “reasonable” relationship to actual damages was unenforceable as a penalty
• holding that damages for violation of District of Columbia Consumer Protection Procedures Act were liquidated debt; cable provider was liable for \full ... amount of the void $5.00 late fees\ charged to customers
• explaining that a non-breaching party may recover liquidated damages as an alternative to actual damages where the parties have agreed to' a valid liquidated-damages clause
• stating that a breach of contract is “an unjustified failure to perform all or any part of what is promised in a contract”
• providing that three-year “catch-all” statute of limitations applies to claims that “are not ‘specially’ governed by any other statute of limitations.”
• defining a “liquidated debt” as “an easily ascertainable sum certain” that compensates a “creditor for the loss of use of money that a debtor wrongfully withholds”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).