Legal Opinion
Katz v. MCI Telecommunications Corp.
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided August 4, 1998No. 1:98-cr-00812PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
BLOCK, District Judge.
Plaintiff Esther Katz (“Katz”) alleges that a telemarketer employed by defendant MCI Telecommunications Corporation (“MCI”) misrepresented certain features of its resi dential telephone account program to her, inducing her to switch her service from another company, and ultimately causing her to develop “a phobia by which she mistrusts all telemarketers, whom she now believes are all fraudulent and not bona fide offerors of the services or products they purport to offer.” Complaint at ¶ 20. She seeks $10 million in compensatory and $40 million in…
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