Trump Handed HUGE Court Victory As Judge Strikes Down Suit
Former President Donald J. Trump celebrated his “complete victory,” after a ruling in U.S. District Court Tuesday dismissed a class-action lawsuit against him related to an endorsement agreement with ACN Opportunity LLC.
As reported by The Western Journal, the former President entered into the endorsement agreement with ACN Opportunity in 2006, and was engaged by the firm to promote its services in marketing training toward independent business owners referred to as IBOs.
Judge Lorna Schofield of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York explained the plaintiffs who enrolled with ACN Opportunity LLC, a multilevel marketing company, claimed that they “relied on Trump’s endorsement of ACN in deciding to enroll,” that he should be held liable for the fact that they made little to no money throughout their participation in the program.
Trump’s agreement with ACN was extended until 2015, at which point his presidential candidacy began. Judge Schofield found that defining a class that could have been harmed by then-presidential hopeful Trump would prove impossible.
She wrote, “While individual plaintiffs may show that they reasonably relied on Trump’s endorsement of ACN when enrolling, that reliance cannot be inferred about all class members when IBOs were recruited through personal contacts in small meetings and with various marketing materials that contained inducements independent of Trump.”
The Judge added, “Here there is no cohesion among putative class members to justify applying the presumption that they relied on Trump’s statements in deciding to enroll, because they were exposed to different marketing pitches from sources in addition to Trump, including statements made by their own personal contacts and marketing materials from ACN.”
