The land of the free and the home of the lawsuit.
A New York Jets season ticket holder has filed a $184 million class-action lawsuit against the Pats and coach Belichick for "deceiving customers".
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"They violated the integrity of the game," Mayer's lawyer, Bruce Afran, told The Associated Press. "This is a way of punishing Belichick and the Patriots."
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How they came up with the $184 million number:
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The two calculated that because customers paid $61.6 million to watch eight "fraudulent" games, they're entitled to triple that amount -- or $184.8 million -- in compensation under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act and the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act.
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Apparently this guy has a history of this sort of thing.
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Mayer and Afran, who consider themselves public interest lawyers, have been thorns in the side of New Jersey politicians for years, filing lawsuits and demanding investigations to advance their grievances. They are well known in the state but generally have had little success in their causes.
Both have lost bids for elected offices, and Mayer once served as a presidential campaign adviser to Ralph Nader.
Their demand in March for a probe of Gov. Jon S. Corzine's gifts to a former girlfriend was rejected by a federal prosecutor. In 2006, a judge vetoed their effort to block Corzine's appointment of Rep. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., to fill the governor's seat in the U.S. Senate.
They also failed to get a court to order a special election to replace Gov. James E. McGreevey when he resigned in 2004.
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Fan sues Belichick for $184 million - Sportsnet.ca
09-18-2007, 10:54 PM
