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Microsoft said late Friday that the company has begun changing its user agreements to prevent consumers from filing class-action lawsuits against the company. In a blog post authored by Jim Fielden, the assistant general counsel at Microsoft, the company ...
May 26, 2012 at 01:43 | Source: PC Magazine
Groupon (GRPN) has settled the case and will pay a proposed $8.5 million in cash to do so -- but, as with many class-action suits, a good chunk of that money will go to the lawyers. Customers will likely take home mere pennies.
May 23, 2012 at 15:30 | Source: CNN Money
The Law Reform Commission is calling for the introduction of class-action suits in Hong Kong. Senior counsel Anthony Neoh, chairman of the commission's class actions subcommittee, said the introduction of such a mechanism will enable people of similar ...
May 28, 2012 at 19:06 | Source: Hong Kong Standard
The rules of civil procedure outline specific regulations which govern class action suits. In order to file a class action suit, the group of individuals alleging injury must be so numerous that joining the members in a typical lawsuit would be impracticable.
May 23, 2012 at 05:07 | Source: 24-7PressRelease.com
Class action suits also allow plaintiffs to seek "injunctive relief", which means the court's remedy to a given complaint would apply to the entire class that leveled the complaint. In the case of the Floyd suit, the plaintiffs are seeking ...
May 17, 2012 at 04:53 | Source: AlterNet
Apple is hoping to dismiss a set of class-action lawsuits accusing it of falsely advertising Siri. The initial lawsuit was filed in March by a iPhone 4S owner who claimed the iPhone 4S's voice activated assistant feature doesn't work as advertised.
May 17, 2012 at 15:44 | Source: PC World
Judge Cote is overseeing the civil class action as well as the suits brought by the DoJ and states. In her decision to let the civil suit move into the discovery phase, Judge Cote wrote that the suit “plausibly alleges that Apple and the ...
May 15, 2012 at 20:55 | Source: Publishers Weekly
Apple has filed a response to a group of class-action suits claiming the company falsely advertised the abilities of the Siri voice-activated digital assistant in its iPhone 4S, countering that the plaintiffs' claims are vague, incomplete, and "highly individualized."
May 17, 2012 at 00:42 | Source: PC Magazine
NEW YORK, May 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbey Spanier Rodd & Abrams, LLP specializing in class action suits, filed a class action lawsuit alleging that Facebook, Inc. (FB) ("Facebook" or the "Company"),  Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan ...
May 25, 2012 at 15:13 | Source: Yahoo Finance
The Law Reform Commission has proposed that Hong Kong should adopt a mechanism for class actions, a framework allowing large groups of people to bring a single lawsuit. In a report on Monday the commission said this would enhance access to justice but ...
May 28, 2012 at 10:38 | Source: South China Morning Post