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An age discrimination lawsuit filed by Mel Arthur, an ex-host on the Home Shopping Network, againts the network, has surpassed the evidentiary hearing phase, with lawyers for both parties expected to submit final briefs to an arbitration panel by end of July 1998. Arthur, who will be 56 years old by September 1998, alleged Home Shopping Network violated the Age Discrimination Act of 1967 when the network allegedly dismissed him without giving him prior warning regarding his performance. Arthur, who claimed to had been one of the network's top-ranked salespeople, is asking for over $3 million for all payments leading to his retirement at age 70.
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People who signed up for the business opportunity program offered informercial marketer 2Xtreme Performance International LLC of Dallas, TX, are ensnared in legal problems with a leasing company that did business with 2Xtreme. 2Xtreme has signed up people to sell vitamins and offered computers supplied by Global Finance and Leasing to be used as part of that business. 2Xtreme had filed for bankruptcy protection in Dec 1999, leaving the signees to pay for computers which are of inferior quality and lacking the featrues and software that were promised.
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2Xtreme International LLC of Dallas, TX, has been accused of making false claims and violating federal laws by the Federal Trade Commission. The government agency said that the informercial marketer is guilty of operating an illegal pyramid scheme that is aimed at defrauding customers by offering the possibility of rich financial gains. 2Xtreme has offered earnings of thousand of dollars monthly to recruits who are asked to spend from $1,000 to $4,000 each for sales kits.
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