From Reason, March 17:
Lawyers representing an allegedly duped Buffalo Wild Wings customer demand that the company disgorge its ill-gotten gains.
Last January, Aimen Halim visited a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in Mount Prospect, Illinois, where he bought an order of "boneless wings." Unbeknownst to Halim, these were not "wings" at all: They were actually spicy, deep-fried chunks of chicken breast meat. That horrifying discovery was just the beginning of the Chicago resident's ordeal, which is the basis of a would-be class-action lawsuit that he filed last week in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
It was bad enough that Halim paid good money for what he assumed was deboned chicken wing meat. Had he "known that the Products are not actually chicken wings," the complaint says, he "would have paid less for them" or "would not have purchased them at all." Worse, Halim is now living in a constant state of "uncertainty" regarding the nature of those products....
....Instead of acknowledging its wrongdoing, Buffalo Wild Wings added insult to injury by mocking Halim's claims. "It's true," the company tweeted this week. "Our boneless wings are all white meat chicken. Our hamburgers contain no ham. Our buffalo wings are 0% buffalo."....
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While mockery is, of course, the correct reaction, the proper place for such derision is in the legal pleadings, which see: the response to a motion by BuzzFeed:
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Best Court Filing This Week: Libel Case Against BuzzFeed Edition
From the
ALEKSEJ GUBAREV, XBT HOLDINGS S.A., and WEBZILLA, INC. Plaintiffs,
v.
BUZZFEED, INC. and BEN SMITH Defendants.
Case No. 0:17-cv-60426-UU
In a somewhat remarkable Motion to Dismiss, Plaintiffs Buzzfeed, Inc. (“Buzzfeed”) and Ben Smith (“Mr. Smith”) intimate that their ties to Florida are so sparse that, collectively, they can barely find Florida on a map and that, as a result, the present case should be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction or transferred to the Southern District of New York........MORE
