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New Jersey Supreme Court Sides with Aéropostale in Consumer Class Action
In a significant legal victory for New Jersey retailers, that state’s Supreme Court has ruled in a class-action lawsuit that advertising illusory discounts and phantom former prices does not necessarily cause consumers to sustain an ascertainable loss, and therefore dismissed the lawsuit despite the state’s generally very pro-consumer protection statute, the Consumer Fraud Act (“CFA”).
Illegal offer no longer enough: a plaintiff must suffer some form of injury to recover under the statute