This part, being deemed remedial legislation necessary for the protection of the consumers of the state of Tennessee and elsewhere, shall be construed to effectuate the purposes and intent. It is the intent of the general assembly that this part shall be interpreted and construed consistently with the interpretations given by the federal trade commission and the federal courts pursuant to § 5(A)(1) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, codified in 15 U.S.C. § 45(a) (1).
Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-18-115
Construction
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case Ganzevoort v. Russell (1997)
Most recently applied in 823 F. Supp. 2d 786 - Carbon Processing & Reclamation, LLC v. Valero Marketing & Supply Co. (October 2011)
Acts 1977, ch. 438, § 16.
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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.
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