Locklear Electric files two new class actions over unsolicited faxesPublished: 2009-07-04 00:23:58Author: Kelly Holleran | Madison County Record | June 18, 2009A Wood River electric company has filed two new separate class action
lawsuits against a chiropractor's office and a real estate company,
alleging the office and company sent unsolicited faxes to it, causing a
waste of paper and employee time.
Both complaints by Locklear
Electric are nearly identical and were filed on the same day in Madison
County Circuit Court. With these new suits, Locklear has now filed at
least seven class action lawsuits over unsolicited faxes since February
2005.
In one of the complaints, Locklear Electric says it
received a faxed advertisement from Theodore Lay and Norma Lay, doing
business as Ted Lay Real Estate Agency, on June 13, 2006, without
Locklear's permission.
In the other lawsuit, Locklear says it
received another faxed advertisement from Taylorville Chiropractic
Clinic on Sept. 25, 2006.
At least 39 other businesses also received both faxes, Locklear claims.
The
two new cases do not include a printed name of the attorney or
attorneys representing Locklear. On the last pages of the filings, an
attorney's illegible signature appears as "one of plaintiff's
attorneys."
In the previous five class action lawsuits, Lanny Darr of Schrempf, Kelly, Napp and Darr in Alton represents the plaintiffs.
"Unsolicited faxes damage their recipients," the suits filed June 9
state. "A junk fax recipient loses the use of fax machine, paper, and
ink toner. Unsolicited faxes prevent fax machines from receiving
authorized faxes, prevent their use for authorized outgoing faxes,
cause undue wear and tear on the recipients' fax machines, and require
additional labor to attempt to discern the source and purpose of the
unsolicited message."
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