The Ninth Circuit recently addressed once again the common practice in outlet stores and other retail establishments of juxtaposing the price at which a fashion item is offered for sale with a higher price advertised as a former price, or as the supposed market value, of that item. Chowning v. Kohl’s Dep’t Stores, 2018 WL … Continue Reading
Last month, Judge Valerie Caproni of the Southern District of New York dismissed with prejudice a putative deceptive pricing class action filed against Burberry. This is the first decision within the Second Circuit to determine whether shoppers claiming to have been victimized by discount price advertising in outlet stores have suffered actual injury for purposes … Continue Reading
Our colleagues at Proskauer’s commercial litigation blog, Minding Your Business, recently covered a dismissal of a discount advertising suit asserted against Saks. The case is Nunez v. Saks Inc., 2017 WL 1184058 (S.D. Cal. Mar. 22, 2017), and Proskauer’s coverage may be found here. *** Want to talk advertising? We welcome your questions, ideas, and … Continue Reading
By Lawrence Weinstein, Daniel Werb and Tiffany Woo on Posted in Class Actions
On December 15, 2016, the California Court of Appeals in Los Angeles came to a surprising summary judgment decision in Sajid Veera et al. v. Banana Republic, LLC. The court held that plaintiffs who claimed they were misled by 40% off signs raised a triable issue of whether they suffered an injury-in-fact even though they … Continue Reading
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