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From: Michael Burdge <>
Subject: census expediters
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 18:43:21 -0500

If a company offers consumer services (primarily family, household, etc)
in Ohio, accepts any money, and fails to deliver or offer a refund
within a certain period of time (I think 6 weeks), then the company is
liable for 3 times actual damages or $200, whichever is greater, plus
attorney fees if the violation was "willful". This is under the Ohio
Consumer Sales Practices Act (Ohio Revised Code Section 1345.01, et
seq.; and administrative rules). So if you have to go to small claims
court, keep that in mind. If the service was not offered in Ohio, no
worry -- practically ever other state now has a consumer law that offers
a similar recovery.

If you are doing the genealogy for yourself or your family (not for
profit), then you probably have rights under the consumer law.

Mick Burdge
Dayton, Ohio

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