Anytime Fitness Video Voyeur Class Action Lawsuit
By Kimberly Mirando
A peeping-Tom lawsuit filed against Anytime Fitness has become a class action lawsuit open to hundreds of women who visited the fitness center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that other women can join the lawsuit against the owners of Anytime Fitness and former trainer Terry Telschow, who was arrested two years ago and charged with video voyeurism. Police say Telschow admitted putting a hidden camera in the ladies restroom at the Baton Rouge gym to videotape women as they undressed. A woman found the camera and alerted police, who found images of her and at least four other female gym members.
The court ruling allows hundreds of additional women to join the lawsuit as a class action, even if they were not videotaped. According to court records, 250 to 300 women visited the gym while Telschow worked there, between November 2009 and April 2010. The court ruled any of these women can join the Anytime Fitness class action lawsuit.
A legal expert for Baton Rouge news station WAFB, Julie Baxter, explains why:
“We don’t want a lot of different cases where women who might have been exposed to the same fear or the same damages would have different awards of money or different findings that are inconsistent with each other. And so that’s one of the reasons that Louisiana law tends to favor class actions when you have one set of circumstances giving rise to injury to a number of people.”
Lawyers for Anytime Fitness say they will fight the class action lawsuit and plan to file an appeal with the state Supreme Court.
Updated June 26th, 2012
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These guys contracts are a bust! Please be smart and don’t sign up for this gym or any gym with a contract! I have to cancel cause I am moving cause of the service and there is no Anytime where I am going and I only have 4 months left in the 2 year contract and somehow I owe 580$. I never officially canceled the membership or canceled/signed anything saying its official and am caught up with my payments but the manager took it upon herself to cancel it after just a brief conversation of what may have to happen soon. This should be illegal and wondering if anyone else has had an issue like this? I am speaking to an attorney soon or if anyone else has please contact me. I have several people particularly in my area with similar occurrences as mine and people in other states. People need to come together to stop company’s like this if your reasoning is valid and unjust like mine and theirs. I’m just sick to my stomach, its all about the money, I already gave them 2250$ and only went to the gym 4 times within the past 2 years. Do Not go to this gym and please don’t do contracts especially 2 years just for equipment use, lots of things can happen in a 2yr period and its a trap.
While tanning at Anytime Fitness in Schofield Wisconsin I realized at 6:30 p.m. that they had left construction workers behind it to work in the panels of the roof above the tanning bed obviously the construction workers got a good full view the owner of the tanning salon apologized his managers apologize they offered to pay me back the $400 I pay for 6 months dues what should I do