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Google faces legal fight over stocks plan

Google faces legal fight over stocks plan

...A Google shareholder has filed a class action lawsuit in an attempt to block the web giant's stock... Read more

1 May, 2012 by Dara Kerr

Lawson shareholders file suit to halt sale

Unhappy Lawson shareholders have filed a class-action lawsuit to block the sale of the enterprise resource planning company... Read more

9 June, 2011

Apple, Google and others fail to derail hiring suit

...employees. However, five of the employees involved in that case filed a class action lawsuit against the firms, saying the arrangement had suppressed their wages... Read more

20 April, 2012

LCD firms pay out $388m over price fixing case

...between 1999 and 2006. Chimei Innolux paid $78m as part of the class action lawsuit's settlement. The eight companies cited in the lawsuit paid... Read more

8 December, 2011 by Don Reisinger

Apple settles lawsuit over MagSafe cord glitch

...Apple has reached a proposed settlement in a class action lawsuit involving older models of its MagSafe power adapters, the company... Read more

9 November, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

BlackBerry owners sue RIM over outage

...Research In Motion is facing a possible class action lawsuit in Canada over the global outage that struck BlackBerry customers... Read more

27 October, 2011 by Steven Musil

Microsoft faces lawsuit over Windows refunds

...A class action lawsuit has been filed against Microsoft by an Italian group claiming... Read more

25 January, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Google hit with privacy suit over search referral links

...Google has been targeted in a class-action lawsuit that accuses the company of violating user privacy by passing... Read more

27 October, 2010 by Tom Krazit

Google to whittle down privacy policy

...it would pay $8.5m (£5.5m) in a settlement for a class-action lawsuit over its social-networking Buzz service. Google included users' frequent... Read more

6 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Google to pay $8.5m to settle Buzz suit

...according to a court filing. The company's proposed settlement to the class-action lawsuit was filed on Friday in district court in San Jose... Read more

6 September, 2010 by Tom Krazit

Apple 'stunned' to discover iPhone signal strength flaw

...answer at the time of writing. The company is currently facing a class-action lawsuit in the US over the iPhone 4 signal issue Read more

2 July, 2010 by David Meyer
Breathers: A Zombie's Lament by S. G. Browne 3.0.1

Breathers: A Zombie's Lament by S. G. Browne 3.0.1

...take him from his casket to the SPCA to a media-driven class-action lawsuit on behalf of the rights of zombies everywhere. Darkly funny... Read more

26 August, 2010

Microsoft's $1bn settlement with consumers

Microsoft said late Friday that it has settled a California class-action lawsuit for up to $1.1bn (£680m), a move that would... Read more

11 January, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Palm sued over colour claims

Handheld maker Palm is facing a class action lawsuit for misstating the number of colours that can be displayed... Read more

28 August, 2002 by Ian Fried

PC bugs: Is the bill coming due?

Toshiba's recent £1.5bn settlement of a suit over a floppy-disk controller bug has the PC industry sweating. Why? Because computer products are riddled with glitches, flaws and imperfections Read more

4 January, 2000 by ZDNet

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