SCS Builders, Inc. and Sonny Calvin Spoon v. Sherri Searcy

How courts have described this case

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• observing that the “nature of the remedy” for a DTPA violation differs from the remedy in a contract action because Section 17.50(b)(1) of the Act entitles the prevailing party to economic damages, attorney’s fees, costs, and potentially other additional damages
• “Under the record in this case, we hold that the duty breached by [the defendants]: to refrain from engaging in or using deceptive trade practices as set out in Section 17.50(a)(3
• “A statutory offender will not be shielded from liability simply by showing its violation also violated a contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).