Opinion ID: 612893
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Heading: The Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act

Text: The OCSPA provides in relevant part that [n]o supplier shall commit an unfair or deceptive act or practice in connection with a consumer transaction. Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1345.02(A). The statute lists acts or practices deemed deceptive, § 1345.02(B), but the Ohio Attorney General also may issue regulations defining acts or practices that violate the OCSPA, § 1345.05(B)(2). Additionally, the Ohio Attorney General must make available for public inspection decisions of Ohio courts deeming practices or acts to violate the OCSPA. § 1345.05(A)(3). A consumer may recover three times his actual damages or $200, whichever is greater, for any act that previously was declared unfair, deceptive, or unconscionable in a regulation or decision made available for public inspection. § 1345.09(B). Additionally, if the supplier has knowingly committed an act or practice that violates Chapter 1345, the court may award a reasonable attorney's fee limited to the work reasonably performed. § 1345.09(F).