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From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Screwing Little Guys
Summary: Question
Message-ID: <3481@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 20 Mar 89 14:26:29 GMT
References: <79700022@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <96@armada.UUCP> <15903@cup.portal.com> <382@siswat.UUCP>
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In article <382@siswat.UUCP>, buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck) writes:
> 
> If this had happened in Texas, you could sue under the Deceptive Trade
> Practices/Consumer Protection Act.  

> (23)	the failure to disclose information concerning goods or services
> 	which was known at the time of the transaction if such failure
> 	to disclose such information was intended to induce the
> 	consumer into a transaction into which the consumer would not
> 	have entered had the information been disclosed.
> 

Ahhh, but does it cover not telling you about a product not on the
market yet?  I think a vendor might be willing to fight you on
that, at least until its resolved by the courts.

Para un Tejas Libre,

Jeff Daiell


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