Howard v. Riggs National Bank

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• holding that defendant had not committed tort because its agent's collater- al comment had been made in good faith
• holding plaintiff could not state a claim against bank from which she sought a construction loan based on bank employee’s alleged misrepresentations about quality of contractor
• determining that an unlawful trade practice can be committed only by a “merchant”
• Riggs Bank employee’s recommendation of a contractor to perform home repair did not fall under DCCPPA because Riggs was not a “merchant”
• “While a ‘merchant’ is not limited to the actual seller of the goods or services complained of, he must be a ‘person’ connected with the ‘supply' side of a consumer transaction.”
• individual's recommendation of another’s services does not give rise to liability under DCCPPA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).