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Section 47a-21

Citation
Section 47a-21
Parent Document
Carrillo v. Goldberg, 141 Conn. App. 299 (2013)
Jurisdiction
Connecticut (state)
Effective Date
2013-03-19

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The plaintiffs also contend that the court erred in failing to double the interest awarded to them under § 47a-21 (d) and (i). We decline to review this claim, however, because it was inadequately briefed. “[W]e are not required to review claims that are inadequately briefed. . . . We consistently have held that [a]nalysis, rather than mere abstract assertion, is required in order to avoid abandoning an issue by failure to brief the issue properly. . . . [F]or this court judiciously and efficiently to consider claims of error raised on appeal . . . the parties must clearly and fully set forth their arguments in their briefs. We do not reverse the judgment of a trial court on the basis of challenges to its rulings that have not been adequately briefed. . . . The parties may not merely cite a legal principle without analyzing the relationship between the facts of the case and the law cited.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Paoletta v. Anchor Reef Club at Branford, LLC, 123 Conn. App. 402, 406, 1 A.3d 1238, cert. denied, 298 Conn. 931, 5 A.3d 491 (2010). The plaintiffs, in their brief to this court, merely employ a paraphrasing of the language of § 47a-21 (d) to stand for the proposition that the trial court erred in declining to award double the accrued interest on the plaintiffs’ security deposit. Failing to set forth an analysis of the statutory language and how that language applies to the facts of their case, the plaintiffs have provided us with inadequate briefing. Loathe to become “ ‘an advocate for any party’,” we, accordingly, decline to review this claim. Id., 408.