Miley Cyrus has become quite a popular personality thanks to the Hannah Montana show on Disney. Thus it is not surprising that thousands of fans are trying their best to get to the Hannah Montana live show. Unfortunately, not all of them were able to get tickets despite the promise made by Miley Cyrus’ official website.
Now things get serious. Ticketless fans are now turning to the law for a resolution.
Two popular law firms have announced that they have filed class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee against Interactive Media Marketing, Inc. and Smiley Miley Inc. This is on behalf of a New Jersey woman and anyone else who joined the Miley Cyrus Fan Club at mileyworld.com which promised that joining the fans club would make it easier to get Hannah Montana concert tickets.
The plaintiff’s attorney, Rob Pierce, has this to say: "They deceptively lured thousands of individuals into purchasing memberships into the Miley Cyrus fan club, and that's why we are suing."
Rob Pierce is from Robert Peirce & Associates, P.C., a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania- based law firm that filed the Hannah Montana class action lawsuit with attorney B.J. Wade from the firm of Glassman, Edwards, Wade & Wyatt of Memphis, TN.
The Hannah Montana lawsuit is asking for treble damages for all members of the class action lawsuit and recovery of all attorneys’ fees, as mandated in the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act.
Pierce added that thousands of people joined the club in the belief that by doing so, they would be able to purchase tickets for the Hannah Montana concert before those tickets were offered for sale to the general public.
The club and the website explicitly state that members who log on to the site shortly after tickets become available will have a good opportunity to get concert tickets. However, majority of those who logged on at the specified time or shortly thereafter were not able to obtain concert tickets.
The lawsuit alleges that both Interactive Media Marketing, Inc. and Smiley Miley, Inc. should have anticipated the fact that its membership exceeded the number of available tickets.
The lawsuit is filed under the name of Kerry Inman, a New Jersey woman who tried to purchase tickets by logging on to the site at the exact time the tickets were made available for sale. However, she was unable to get the tickets.
"The scenario that the Inman family went through -- paying for a membership, then logging on to purchase tickets as soon as possible-this scenario has been replayed thousands, if not tens of thousands of times over the past few months," said Peirce.