Plaintiff

The lawsuit was filed by two Chicago attorneys: Mark Weinberg, an attorney specializing in consumer fraud and civil rights class-actions; and Douglas Litowitz, presently a visiting professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. The proposed class of plaintiffs includes a nationwide class all recent moviegoers who have been misled by Loews' movie advertising. The named plaintiff in the case is Miriam Fisch, a high school English teacher in a Chicago suburb, who was forced to sit through four commercials prior to the start of watching "The Quiet American." The lawsuit does not challenge the right of movie theatres to show movie previews prior to the start of the show.