Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather fraud lawsuits to be heard in California court
Plaintiffs to argue they were defrauded when they paid for pay-per-view presentation without knowing of Pacquiao’s injured shoulder
Plaintiffs who say the May 2 Las Vegas fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jnr was a fraud and they deserve their pay-per-view money back will argue their cases in front of a federal judge in California.
Judge R. Gary Klausner, the same judge hearing arguments in cases filed against the Sony movie studio related to a computer hacker attack last year, will decide if the Pacquiao cases are granted class-action status before any trial proceeds.
A panel of judges that decides whether to consolidate similar claims brought in different jurisdictions into a single courtroom ruled Friday that lawsuits filed in several states will be heard in the Central District of California where Pacquiao was said to injure his shoulder while training for the fight.
The US Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation said in its decision that determining the severity and timing of the boxer’s rotator-cuff injury could require “significant factual, and possibly expert, discovery.”