<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I think it's important to give weight to the part of the hypothetical involving the Florida Building Code's provisions having "the force of law." Because violations of the FBC are <i>required to be fixed</i>, then the applicable measure of damages must be whatever the current cost of correction is. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In that specific scenario, a diminution of value measure of damages simply would not be a reasonable application of the law, or an effective/meaningful remedy, in my opinion.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 1:15 PM RPPTL CLC-Discussion <<a href="mailto:clc-discussion@lists.flabarrpptl.org">clc-discussion@lists.flabarrpptl.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Because the Economic Waste doctrine is judicially created. It should apply, absence a state statute to the contrary. While the question you have impliedly posed calls reason/logic into question, a possible legislative fix has no such burden.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [CLC-Discussion] 553.84 damages<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">I’m interested in others’ thoughts on this.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">We know two things about breach of contract damages under
<i>Grossman Holdings</i>: (1) that they are to be measured as of the time of the breach (<i>Jeremy Stewart Constr., Inc. v. Matthews</i>, 324 So. 3d 41 (Fla. 1st DCA 2021)) – with interest accruing since that time; and (2) that they are limited to diminution
in value if the cost to correct would be “unreasonable economic waste.” --- BUT – what about damages under 553.84? Since the building code has the force of law, and is for the purposes of life safety, etc., wouldn’t damages for a 553.84 claim have
<i>neither</i> of those constraints? <i>I.e.</i> wouldn’t they, for public policy reasons, be measured by the
<b><i>current</i></b> cost to correct and not be limited by the economic waste constraint because the law requires their correction?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">I can find zero cases or other authorities that even touch this point.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Thoughts from this august group? Am I Don Quixote here?
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