And imposing a stay pending final resolution of the criminal case, which may include appeals, would frustrate the purpose of the CCPA to provide “prompt, economical, and readily available remedies against consumer fraud.” W. Food Plan, Inc. v. Dist. Court, 198 Colo. 251, 256, 598 P.2d 1038, 1041 (1979).

The CCPA was enacted to provide "prompt, economical, and readily available remedies against consumer fraud." Western Food Plan v. Dist. Court, 198 Colo. 251, 256, 598 P.2d 1038, 1041 (1979). This court has taken "[a]n expansive approach . . . in interpreting the CCPA by reading and considering the CCPA in its entirety and interpreting the meaning of any one section by considering the overall legislative purpose."

The CCPA's broad legislative purpose is "to provide prompt, economical, and readily available remedies against consumer fraud." Western Food Plan, Inc. v. Dist. Court, 198 Colo. 251, 256, 598 P.2d 1038, 1041 (1979). This purpose is achieved through injunctions and civil penalties such as treble damages and attorney's fees.

The CCPA's broad legislative purpose is "to provide prompt, economical, and readily available remedies against consumer fraud." Western Food Plan, Inc. v. Dist. Court, 198 Colo. 251, 256, 598 P.2d 1038, 1041 (1979). This purpose is achieved through injunctions and civil penalties such as treble damages and attorney's fees.

In all original proceedings brought under this rule . . . the clerk of the Supreme Court shall serve a copy of the order to show cause by mail on the respondent district court and other respondents, and on all parties in the district court action or in the proceeding in the inferior tribunal . . . . In support of her position, Owens cites two of our decisions, Western Food Plan, Inc. v. District Court, 198 Colo. 251, 598 P.2d 1038 (1979), and Intermountain Rural Electric Association v. Public Utilities Commission, 723 P.2d 142 (Colo. 1986).

The mandatory nature of this penalty is consistent with the legislative spirit and intent to provide "prompt, economical, and readily available remedies against consumer fraud." Western Food Plan, Inc. v. District Court, 198 Colo. 251, 256, 598 P.2d 1038, 1041 (Colo. 1979).

The CCPA was enacted to provide a remedy "against consumer fraud." Western Food Plan, Inc. v. Dist. Court, 198 Colo. 251, 256,' 598 P.2d 1038, 1041 (1979). Thus, the CCPA empowers the Attorney General and private parties to initiate actions against persons engaged in deceptive trade practices.

The CCPA was enacted by the Colorado legislature to provide a remedy against consumer fraud. W. Food Plan, Inc. v. Dist. Ct., 598 P.2d 1038, 1041 (Colo. 1979). To establish a claim under the CCPA, a plaintiff bears the burden to show: (1) the defendant engaged in an unfair or deceptive trade practice; (2) the challenged practice occurred in the course of defendant's business, vocation, or occupation; (3) the plaintiff suffered injury in fact to a legally protected interest; (4) the challenged practice caused the plaintiff's injury; and (5) the challenged practice significantly impacts the public as actual or potential consumers of the defendant's goods, services, or property.

They further contend that Plaintiffs cannot demonstrate a significant public impact. The CCPA is intended to provide “prompt, economical and readily available remedies against consumer fraud,” W. Food Plan v. Dist. Court, 198 Colo. 251, 256, 598 P.2d 1038, 1041 (Colo.1979); I should therefore keep in mind its “strong and sweeping remedial purposes.” Crowe v. Tull, 126 P.3d 196, 202 (Colo.2006).

2006) ("The CCPA was enacted to provide `prompt, economical, and readily available remedies against consumer fraud.'" (quoting Western Food Plan v. Dist. Court, 598 P.2d 1038, 1041 (1979))). Moreover, in grafting the puffery doctrine onto the Consumer Protection Act, the Park Rise Court cited to a warranty case — Elliott v. Parr, 66 P.2d 819 (Colo.