Gramatan Home Investors Corp. v. Starling

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• construing Vermont statute as mandating award of reasonable attorney's fees to successful plaintiff and denying any discretion to trial court on this issue
• prevailing consumer is entitled to award of attorney’s fees in consumer fraud case brought under 9 V.S.A. § 2461(b)
• Vermont follows “American” rule, which requires each party to bear its own costs and attorney fees
• purpose of VCFA includes “to encourage a commercial environment highlighted by integrity and fairness”
• “The relief available under § 2461(b) to a consumer who has been victimized by an unfair or deceptive commercial practice was fashioned in order to promote and encourage prosecution of individual consumer fraud claims.”
• statutory award of attorney’s fees to individual plaintiffs under Consumer Fraud Law reflects legislative intent to protect this state’s citizens from unfair and deceptive business practices and to encourage a commercial environment highlighted by integrity and fairness

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