This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.”
Fla. Stat. § 501.201
Short title
Known as the Florida Commercial Weight-Loss Practices Act
The act spans §§ 501–501 (162 sections).
Applied in 149 court decisions — leading case Carrera v. Bayer Corp. (2013)
Most recently applied in Dennis Speerly v. General Motors, LLC (August 2024)
History.--s. 1, ch. 73-124.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Online Sunshine (Florida Legislature). Reproduced from public-domain Florida statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.