Dynamic Accident Lawyers: Fans Allege St. Louis Rams Misled Them on L.A. Move

St Louis Rams Fans and ticket holders of the St. Louis Rams have filed a class action alleging the owner and team made misleading statements and omitted key information about their plans to move the team to another city.

The Rams false statement class action lawsuit was filed on Jan 13, one day after the National Football League (NFL) announced its decision to allow the Rams to move the team to Los Angeles, Calif.

Plaintiffs James Pudlowski, Louis C. Cross III, Gail Henry and Steve Henry claim that they purchased tickets, concessions, and/or merchandise from the St. Louis Rams with the understanding that owner Steve Kroenke had no intent to move the team to another city.

In the St. Louis Rams class action lawsuit, the plaintiffs allege that the team and owner “made false promises in that they made statements to [the plaintiffs] indicating that they would not lead the charge out of St. Louis, that their entire focus was on building a winner in and for St. Louis, [and] that they would attempt to do everything they could to keep the team in St. Louis.”

The NFL class action complaint cites several quotes from the owner and team management to that effect, such as Kroenke’s statements in a 2010 newspaper interview that said: “I’m going to attempt to do everything I can to keep the Rams in St. Louis,” and that it “is not our desire to ever lead the charge out of St. Louis.”

Similarly, the complaint cites the Chief Operations Officer for the St. Louis Rams, Kevin Demoff, as saying in 2012 that “our entire focus is building a winner in and for St. Louis.” The Rams class action lawsuit also asserts that the application of the Rams to move to Los Angeles contained incorrect statements about St. Louis and the city’s ability to host an NFL team.

According to the St. Louis Rams false statement class action lawsuit, the team and owner Kroenke have been planning to move the NFL team to Los Angeles “as early as 2013 and possibly before.” However, “their first public acknowledgement,” the class action lawsuit states, “was on January 4, 2016, when Defendants filed their application to relocate the St. Louis Rams to Inglewood” (a suburb of Los Angeles).

Under Missouri state law, it is illegal to sell merchandise using “false promise, misrepresentation, unfair practice or the concealment, suppression, or omission of any material fact.” The Rams false statements class action lawsuit alleges that the team and owner hid their intent to move the St. Louis Rams from fans who purchased tickets and merchandise from the team.

The false statement lawsuit seeks to represent a class of any “Missouri residents who purchased Rams tickets and/or merchandise and/or concessions from the Defendants between April 21, 2010, and January 4, 2016, in the State of Missouri for personal, family, or household purposes.” The class action lawsuit asks for compensatory damages for the tickets, merchandise, and concessions sold to Class Members during that time period.

Plaintiffs Pudlowski, Cross, Henry and Henry are represented by Steven J. Stolze of the Holland Law Firm.

The St. Louis Rams False Statements Class Action Lawsuit is Pudlowski, et al. v. The St. Louis Rams LLC, et al., Case No. 1622-CC00083, in the Missouri Circuit Court for the City of St. Louis, 22nd Judicial Circuit.

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