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 Josh Finkelman, who said he spent $4,000 on two tickets to the Feb
2. championship game, sued in federal court, accusing the NFL of
violating the state Consumer Fraud Act, which the lawsuit says
prohibits companies issuing tickets to withhold more than 5 percent
of available seating to the public.
According to the lawsuit, filed on Monday, the NFL allocates only 1
percent of tens of thousands of Super Bowl tickets to the general
public through a lottery system.
The rest of the fans who want to attend the game are left to the
mercy of secondary sales, in which ticket prices might be inflated
many times their face value, especially if they are part of a
package that includes parties, luxury hotels or limousine rides to
the MetLife stadium in Rutherford, New Jersey, the complaint said.
The NFL did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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"It's unfair the fans can't get tickets like everyone else
for the game," said Finkelman, a 28-year-old warehouse
distributor from New Brunswick, New Jersey.
The NFL is violating state law, said Finkelman's attorney Bruce
Nagel.
"We have a statute in New Jersey that prevents the NFL from
doing what they are doing," Nagel said. "When the NFL has the
Super Bowl in New Jersey, they have to open their eyes to New
Jersey law."
The class-action lawsuit seeks unspecified compensation.
The MetLife stadium can seat more than 82,000 people.
(Reporting by Marina Lopes; editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Gunna
Dickson)
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