Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce are declared unlawful.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 6-13.1-2
Unlawful acts or practices
Known as the Unfair Trade Practice and Consumer Protection Act
The act spans §§ 6–6 (31 sections).
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case In re Pharmaceutical Industry Average Wholesale Price Litigation (2005)
Most recently applied in Goran Pleho, LLC v. Lacy. ICA mem.op., filed 07/29/2016. Motion for Partial Reconsideration of Memorandum Opinion, filed 08/08/2016. (April 2019)
P.L. 1968, ch. 12, § 1.
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: Rhode Island General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Rhode Island statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.