Tag archive: class action lawsuit

Initially filed by the Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd law firm on behalf of investors at the City of Royal Oak Retirement System in Michigan, Netflix is now dealing with a class-action suit alleging that company officials “issued materially false and misleading statements regarding business practices and its contracts with content providers.”  Defendants specifically identified within the lawsuit include CEO Reed Hastings, chief… Read More

Nipping at the heels of the recently dismissed “other OS” class-action lawsuit, a Northern California man has ironically filed a class-action lawsuit against Sony for the very clause that prohibits users from suing. Gamespot reports that that the man filed suit in late November 2011 for himself and all the other customers who bought PS3′s and signed up for the Playstation Network before the Sony TOS changes in September. The suit revolves… Read More

Contained within the new Xbox Live Terms of Use, Microsoft added clauses that prevent users to bring a class-action lawsuit against the company in regards to changes in the Xbox Live service. These new sections were added prior to the release of the Fall 2011 dashboard update that rolled out last night. Similar to Apple's process of agreeing to new terms within iTunes, Xbox 360 owners are presented with the new conditions when installing… Read More

Sony just can't catch a break. The company is being hit with another class action lawsuit over the Playstation Network breach in April. The three men suing Sony say that the network problems centered around laid-off security employees. According to the documents, Sony knew that its security systems were ill-prepared for cyber attacks and this negligence led to the theft of customers' personal information as well as the month-long PSN… Read More

Vikram Ajjampur from Florida and William Devito from New York have banded together against the Cupertino, California-based tech giant and filed a lawsuit claiming that Apple is guilty of fraud and invasion of privacy. The suit is based off of findings which were revealed last week by researchers Alasdair Allen and Pete Warden. The security researchers stated there was an encrypted file in iPhones and 3G iPads running iOS 4 which logged the… Read More

A man in California has filed a class action lawsuit against AT&T, alleging that the company's monthly bills to customers “systematically overstate web server traffic by 7% to 14%,” and in some instances by as much as 300 percent. The complaint specifically addresses AT&T accounts linked to iPads and iPhones. “AT&T's billing system for iPhone and iPad data transactions is like a rigged gas pump that… Read More

In the wake of a class-action lawsuit filed in a Seattle federal court earlier this week, Amazon.com now says it will replace Kindle screens cracked by its own optional protective cover accessory free of charge. Prior to the class-action suit, Amazon had been charging customers $200 for the repair; the suit alleges that clips from an optional protective cover sold with the Kindle can crack the device's display and eventually render… Read More

In a trend that would sound eerily familiar to the maker of any electronic gadget, Amazon.com now finds itself as the target of a class action lawsuit over its popular portable device, the Kindle electronic reader. The suite, filed in Seattle by one Matthew Geise, alleges a $30 optional protective cover designed to protect the e-reader's screen actually damages the display, causing it to crack and, eventually, doing in the Kindle… Read More

“Following a tip from an informed source, GameSpot contacted Attorney Robert C. Schubert, partner at San Francisco law firm Schubert & Reed LLP. He said that he has initiated legal proceedings to start a class action lawsuit on behalf of a group of EA employees. “We are seeking unpaid overtime for a good number of [EA] employees who weren't [properly] paid,” Schubert told GameSpot this afternoon. “EA… Read More