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Man Sues Classmates.com, Says It Lied About Friends Looking for Him

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Nov 13th 2008 at 3:46PM

Man Sues Classmates.com. Hurray!One of our dreams is finally coming true -- someone is suing the crap out of Classmates.com.

The annoying proto-social-network somehow survived the dot-com bubble without making significant changes to its questionable marketing practices. We've all gotten e-mail from the site, at some point, trying to entice us to pony up some dough by claiming that some high school buddy is trying to contact us.

San Diego resident Anthony Michaels fell for the deceptive practice and shelled out the $15 to upgrade his account in order to find out who was trying to contact him through the site. Of course, after handing over his credit card information, Classmates.com revealed that no one had tracked down Michaels on their site.

However, unlike other suckers over the years, Michaels wasn't willing to simply accept that he was out $15 and get on with his life. He has now filed a class action law suit against Classmates.com in a California court seeking to force the company to refund millions in subscription fees and fine them for deceptive marketing practices.

This will likely take some time to play out, but here's hoping that this single lawsuit can bankrupt the obnoxious spam prone relic of Web 1.0. [From: Wired and Download Squad]
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AT&T Retailer Accused of Pawning Used Nokias as New

by Chris Ziegler, posted Jul 17th 2008 at 2:01PM


Notice that your freshly-purchased N75 smells more like a week-old head of cabbage than a bundle of brand new plastic, glue, and circuitry? That's gross, and no, we don't want to touch it (seriously, get that thing away from us). Turns out you may not be alone, though -- a new class-action suit filed in federal court alleges that CommClub, an independent retailer in California, was selling used Nokias for AT&T's network as brand new devices.

For whatever reason, AT&T and Nokia are also named as defendants in the suit, though we're not sure exactly what role they played in CommClub's potentially nefarious dealings; at any rate, the class is looking to bring home some bacon for "injuries" suffered as a result of the bait-and-switch. You're going to go smell your N75 now, aren't you? [Source: RCR Wireless News]

Apple Slapped With Class Action Suit Over Misleading iMac Ads

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Apr 7th 2008 at 7:48AM

Apple Slapped with Class Action Suit Over Misleading iMac Ads
Apple, no stranger to class action law suits at this point, is under the gun again. This time for misleading claims about the screens on its 20 inch model iMac PCs. Apple claims that its screens can display millions of colors -- 16,777,216 to be exact -- and while that is true of the 24-inch model and the previous generation 20- and 24-inch models, the recent update to the iMac line brought a downgrade for the 20-inch model.

Instead of using the same 8 bit in-plane switching screens as the previous generation, the new 20-inch iMacs went with an older technology called 6-bit twisted nematic film. This older technology limits the screens to 262,144 simultaneous colors, which limits the viewing angle and negatively effects color accuracy, making the screen completely ill-suited for video editing and digital imaging and photography.

The suit has been filed by the California based law firm Kabateck Brown Kellner.

From Consumerist

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Verizon Wireless In Billion-Dollar Lawsuit

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Jan 31st 2008 at 10:05AM

Verizon the Target of Billion Dollar Lawsuit
Verizon is about to become the target of the largest class action suit ever certified in arbitration. The suit covers the over 70 million former Verizon Wireless subscribers and could have a pay out as high as $1 billion. Yes. A billion. Claimants in the suit are allowed to dispute the $175 early termination fee that Verizon has since started prorating.

Termination fees are meant to cover liquidation damages, which result from a breach of contract. The problem is liquidation damages are hard to quantify, leaving the absurdly high early termination fees vulnerable to litigation.

Just think, with that $175, you'll now be able to pay the early termination fee on the AT&T service you're not so happy with.

From BetaNews


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Target Sued Over Site's Visually-Impaired Accessibility

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Oct 15th 2007 at 11:22AM

Target.com
A new ruling requires that Target.com and other sites allow for keyboard navigation and use alternate tags for images in order to make the sites accessible for the visually-impaired. These requirements sound simple enough, but may prove difficult for all of those dynamic, Flash-enabled pages that are popular among e-commerce sites. That means this ruling could cost site providers like Target, Wal-Mart, and Best Buy a lot of development money while web agencies rejoice.

US District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, of the Court for the Northern District of California, ruled that the case of the "National Federation of the Blind vs Target" is eligible for class-action status, meaning that the suit against Target can go forward in court and make the company liable for the site's accessibility issues. Patel ruled that "the inaccessibility of Target.com impeded full and equal enjoyment of goods and services offered in Target stores."

Target has attempted to have the case thrown numerous times, but but has failed.

From Tech Crunch

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Man Sues Apple Over iPhone Battery

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Jul 31st 2007 at 11:08AM


Some people are just desperate for attention and cash. Case in point: Jose Trujillo, a man who is either the worst scam artist ever -- or deaf and illiterate -- has filed a class action suit against Apple claiming:

"Unknown to the Plaintiff, and undisclosed to the public, prior to purchase, the iPhone is a sealed unit with its battery soldered on the inside of the device so that it cannot be changed by the owner... The battery enclosed in the iPhone can only be charged approximately 300 times before it will be in need of replacement, necessitating a new battery annually for owners of the iPhone."

While we can't argue the claim that it was "unknown to the plaintiff," the assertion that Apple never disclosed to the public that the battery was not user-replaceable is simply hogwash. It was one of the many widely publicized deficiencies that critics and supporters latched onto.

Also, the iPhone battery will continue to hold 80% of its capacity after 400 charges, a far cry from the 300 charges before needing to be replaced that the suit claims.

From Tech Crunch

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