“We just want them to operate within the law the same way we have to,” the Executive Vice President of Ashley Lynn’s Inc., operators of 16 Palm Beach Tan locations, told a local TV station after Wednesday’s filing of a lawsuit by a group of Nebraska indoor tanning businesses against the Nebraska Cancer Coalition.

“They have the right to try to encourage people not to tan in tanning beds, however they can’t put out facts and figures that aren’t accurate,” Ashley Lynn’s Inc. VP Heather Almond said.

Watch full coverage of the lawsuit, including Almond’s comments, from ABC affiliate KETV Omaha below.

Thirty indoor tanning businesses, making up two-thirds of the Lincoln and Omaha markets, are represented by the suit, claiming that the plaintiffs have been harmed as a result of false, misleading and defamatory statements made by the NCC about their businesses and the indoor tanning industry.

For more information about the lawsuit, click here.

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