If you’re going to file a class action lawsuit alleging an ISP’s ads are exaggerating its broadbandnspeed, you’d better make sure the record contains the deceptive ad you’re suing over. That’s the takeawaynof Fink v. Time Warner Cable, decided Monday in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. “Plaintiffsnbrought this lawsuit, and purported to do so based upon the specific text of a specific advertisement,” readnthe decision of the unanimous three-judge panel (http://1.usa.gov/16OhEfa). “They should not need discoverynto tell them exactly what that advertisement said.”
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机译:如果您要提起集体诉讼诉讼,指控ISP的广告夸大了其宽带速度,则最好确保记录中包含您要起诉的欺骗性广告。这就是周一在第二届美国巡回上诉法院作出的Fink诉Time Warner Cable案的结论。 “原告提出了这一诉讼,并据称是基于特定广告的特定文字进行的,”宣读后由三名法官组成的专家小组一致决定(http://1.usa.gov/16OhEfa)。 “他们不需要发现就可以准确地告诉他们广告的内容。”
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