District Court, D. New Jersey December 3, 2002, Civil Action 02-3870 (Beilowitz v. General Motors Corp.)

OPINION

ORLOFSKY, District Judge.

Thomas Hobson, an English liveryman who lived in the seventeenth century, re

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quired his customers to take the horse nearest to the stable door or none at all.

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Accordingly, a “Hobson’s choice” refers to an apparently free choice that offers no real alternative.