Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices declared unlawful
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case In Re Wiring Device Antitrust Litigation (1980)
Most recently applied in Freeman v. J.I.H. Investments, LP (November 2015)
1962 Code SECTION 46-150.153; 1972 (57) 2419.
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.
(a) Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices as defined in Section 56-15-40 are hereby declared to be unlawful.
(b) In construing paragraph (a) the courts may be guided by the definitions in the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 45).
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.