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Lawyers allege that more than 4 million calls were made on behalf of Last Ounce of Courage, a movie about the War on Christmas that has a zero percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
BEN COLLINS
GIDEON RESNICK
06.25.17 12:00 AM ET
This week, potential litigants from Nebraska to Oklahoma received mailers offering the opportunity to join a class action lawsuit if former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee robocalled their houses with advertisements for a straight-to-DVD movie about the War on Christmas.
If you received one or more telephone calls that used the recorded voice of Mike Huckabee to deliver a message as part of a campaign for the movie Last Ounce of Courage, you may be a class member in a class action lawsuit, the mailer reads.
Lawyers for plaintiffs Dorit and Ron Golan, who first filed the suit in 2014, allege that more than 4 million calls were made in the marketing campaign for Last Ounce of Courage. The case was first dismissed in May of 2014, then allowed to proceed by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in June of 2015. The class action was certified by a U.S. district court judge in St. Louis in January of this year.
Huckabee himself was originally listed as a defendant but was later removed from the case, according to a memorandum from United States District Judge E. Richard Webber, the person who initially determined that the Golans did not have a case. The suit hinges on the plaintiffs alleging that the calls are in potential violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which stipulates that unsolicited messages with commercial content via telephone is unlawful.
Huckabee did not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Beast.
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sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Lawyers and class actions can hold the powerful to account when they break laws.
marybourg
(12,633 posts)for generations.
TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts).
After fees, expenses, and time are calculated and skimmed from the award...
the injured will receive a check that might cover the cost of a Grande (not Venti) cup of Starbucks coffee.
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I was in one, decades ago. It was a multi-hundreds of million dollar settlement. My check was for 47 cents.
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sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Even if you only got 47 cents the company paid a penalty for their wrongdoing. That is a big reason why America needs robust liability law.