State v. Hano

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• noting that “[a]s remedial legislation [the Home Improvement Act, General Statutes § 20-418 et seq.] must be afforded a liberal construction in favor of those whom the legislature intended to benefit”
• denying recovery on CUTPA claim based on § 20-429[a] because counterclaim plaintiffs \presented no evidence that they had suffered an ascertainable loss of money or property\
• relief warranted only where party can show it is \necessary to remedy a manifest injustice\
• “[a] homeowner cannot in bad faith invoke the contractor’s . . . violation [of the act] as a basis for his own repudiation of the contract”
• because bad faith exception only permits restitution, contractor who had not yet begun construction could not recover liquidated damages, even if homeowner acted in bad faith to repudiate defective contract
• enforcement precluded because contract did not provide commencement and completion dates

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).