Mike Scarcella
Pop superstar Madonna convinced a judge in Miami to dismiss a lawsuit accusing her of misleading spectators by taking the stage 90 minutes later than scheduled at an April concert.
Miami-Dade County Circuit Court Judge Jorge Pérez Santiago said at a hearing last week that the show’s 8:30 p.m. start time was subject to change and that the opening act performed as planned prior to the appearance. by Madonna.
The plaintiff alleged that Madonna and the arena, the Kaseya Center, violated Florida law against deceptive and unfair business practices by starting the show late and knowingly allowing the venue to become too hot.
Pérez Santiago said there were no issues to be resolved by a jury and dismissed the case. For him, heat was limited to something subjective.
“If it was too hot for you, it’s too cold for someone else,” Pérez Santiago said during the Oct. 24 hearing, according to a transcript.
Marcus Corwin, the spectator’s lawyer, told Reuters on Monday that he intends to appeal the decision.
“My job is to help consumers get what they think they bargained for,” Corwin said in an interview.
Lawyers for Madonna and the arena, home to the Miami Heat professional basketball team, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Corwin has two other similar cases pending against Madonna before different judges in the same court.
The Florida-based lawyer is also filing a separate class action lawsuit over the late start of a Madonna concert in Washington, D.C. federal court. In June, he voluntarily dropped a New York lawsuit that accused the star of starting the shows two hours late.
Madonna denied the allegations in all cases.
The lawsuits in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court sought damages of less than $8,000 for different nights of Madonna’s Celebration Tour in Miami.
At the October 24 hearing, Corwin accused Madonna of habitual tardiness.
“I mean, it’s not about one night. They do it all the time,” he said.
Madonna’s lawyer, Austin Flickstein, argued that the plaintiff got what he paid for.
“It’s not unreasonable for a headliner to have someone come up and warm up the audience,” Flickstein told the court.
“Reasonable consumers know this.”
Source: Folha
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