HBO Boxing Litigation Claims Fraudulent Inducement, Not Sub-Par Bout

The class-action complaints against HBO and boxers Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao aren't from disappointed sports fans with buyers' remorse about an underwhelming bout but from consumers fraudulently induced the active suppression of material facts by the sellers to buy something they wouldn't have purchased otherwise -- pay-per-view packages, the plaintiff appellants said in a docket 17-56366 reply brief (in Pacer) filed Tuesday with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The appellants said all the state laws at issue require a commercial vendor or promoter to disclose material facts to consumers. They are challenging a lower court's August dismissal of the class-action complaints (see 1801170015). Appellee outside counsel didn't comment Wednesday.