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After 5-year battle,
Hooters hit with a minimum $3.9 Million verdict for junk fax campaign
to 1,321 Georgia businesses - now faces hearing for triple damages.
Jury Verdict
Form (Courtesy TCPALAW.COM)
March 21, 2001 - In a potentially precedent-setting case, a jury determined
that Hooters of Augusta Inc.
willfully violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending unsolicited
advertising faxes.
Atlanta-based Hooters of America
Inc., the local restaurant's parent company, might have to pay anywhere
from an estimated $4 million to $12 million, depending on how Richmond
County Superior Court Judge Carl C. Brown Jr. assesses punitive damages.
The class-action lawsuit was brought
in June 1995 by Sam Nicholson, and included 1,320 others who were also
the target of the junk fax campaign by Bambi Clark d/b/a Value Fax.
Value Fax was a faxed advertising flyer that Hooters advertised in along
with other businesses.
Adapted
from an Augusta
Chronicle article.
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