111 Md. App. 689 - Thoreson v. Shaffer’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
September 2007
most recently cited
2 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Schweitzer v. Brewer · 55 Md. App. 710 - Duckworth v. Bernstein · 52 Md. App. 687 - Brown v. Doug Griffith Dodge City, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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“The statutory language appears clear in this regard, and such an interpretation is consistent with the protective purposes of the statute. It is a law intended to guard the foolish or unsophisticated borrower, who may be under severe financial pressure, from his own improvidence. The law achieves this beneficent purpose by penalizing even the unwitting violator, to the extent of limiting him to recovery of the principal amount of the loan. This is consistent with the strong Maryland policy against usury. See Plitt v. Kaufman, 188 Md. 606, 612 , 53 A.2d 673 (1947). It is also consistent with the legislative approach to consumer protection illustrated in Brown v. Doug Griffith Dodge City, 52 Md.App. 687 , 452 A.2d 984 (1982).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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