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September 24, 2004
Andrew Bergh: Lucky Cheng’s unlucky in suit over bad review
Is bad publicity better than no publicity?
No way, said the owner of Lucky Cheng's, a unique eatery in Manhattan, which supposedly suffered a 35 percent drop in business after getting only so-so marks from a popular restaurant survey. But when it took on the First Amendment in its libel suit against the survey publisher, the owner ultimately discovered that it had bit off more than it could chew.
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