LG, Best Buy Seek Summary Judgment on TV Refresh Rates Allegations

LG and Best Buy are asking the U.S. District Court in Minneapolis to grant their motion for summary judgment in a May 2016 complaint that accused them of duping the public about the refresh rates of LG TVs through misleading and fraudulent advertising statements. It’s “undisputed” that the LG sets use “backlight scanning technology that reduces motion blur and improves picture quality,” said a heavily redacted memorandum (in Pacer) filed Friday in support of the motion. “Plaintiffs received televisions that provided them with the exact benefit they claim they wanted to receive.” Four plaintiffs remain from the original eight who filed the complaint nearly four years ago seeking class-action status, it said. All have “fatal flaws that defeat their claims,” including one who admits he “never saw the purportedly problematic advertising,” and another who “was not damaged at all, given that he ultimately received a reimbursement of the full television purchase price,” it said. Attempts to reach the plaintiffs’ lawyers for comment Tuesday were unsuccessful.