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Business Clients Sue Star Tribune
June 19th, 2006
Saliterman & Siefferman and two other local law firms recently filed suit in Federal District Court for the District of Minnesota on behalf of six advertisers of the Minneapolis Star Tribune Company
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April 13th, 2005
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Business Clients Sue Star Tribune
June 19th, 2006
Saliterman & Siefferman and two other local law firms recently filed suit in Federal District Court for the District of Minnesota on behalf of six advertisers of the Minneapolis Star Tribune Company representing the interests of thousands of other business advertisers in a class action lawsuit, claiming that the newspaper overstated its circulation numbers in order to drive up advertising rates and overcharge customers.
In the Complaint, the Plaintiffs allege that the Star Tribune manipulated its circulation volume in several ways, including:
- requiring distributors to deliver unsold papers to residential addresses, hospitals, apartment buildings, or shopping centers that were not paying subscribers;
- requiring distributors to dump unsold newspapers; and
- manipulating circulation reports to the independent non-profit circulation auditing agency, the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), which certifies a publisher's circulation volume upon which the publisher's advertising rate is based. As a result, advertisers have been forced to pay higher rates for placing ads.
Plaintiffs are seeking compensatory damages to be paid to the prospective class for the overpayments. It is expected that the damages may be in the tens of millions of dollars.
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