KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) – A major wholesale company is being accused of violating federal law by sending one advertisement over a fax machine to a law firm.

The Backer Law Firm, of Independence, Mo., is the plaintiff in a lawsuit filed on April 2 in Jackson County Circuit Court in Missouri against Costco Wholesale Corporation claiming the company sent an advertisement to its fax machine in December 2012.

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