Opinion ID: 2379970
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Injunctions

Text: [¶ 29] Weinschenk and RWB assert that the injunctions imposed upon them by the Superior Court, requiring them to hire a registered engineer to confirm that their building and construction plans comply with applicable codes, and to submit their advertising materials and building contracts to the Attorney General's office for review, are overbroad. In fashioning appropriate remedies for violations of the UTPA, courts are given broad discretion to do complete justice. Bob Chambers Ford, Inc., 522 A.2d at 366. An injunction issued pursuant to the UTPA is to be remedial in nature. 5 M.R.S.A. § 209. By requiring Weinschenk and RWB to follow a procedure that is intended to prevent them from building and marketing defective houses, the Superior Court fashioned a remedy designed to protect future consumers who purchase houses from Weinschenk or RWB. The Superior Court neither erred, nor engaged in an unsustainable exercise of discretion, in issuing injunctions against Weinschenk and RWB.