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Gateway Hit By Class Action Suit
News In addition, the suit alleges Gateway automatically signed up customers for a Gateway-branded MasterCard with an annual interest rate of 27 percent. The credit card had been advertised as having a "competitive" rate, according to the suit.
[October 17, 2000, 11:56]
Microsoft Braces For Class Action Suit
News The Times said the lawyers, Terry Gross of San Francisco, Daniel Mogin of San Diego and Francis Scarpulla of San Francisco, plan to file the suit in California Superior court in San Francisco. The complaint does not estimate the financial impact to...
[November 22, 1999, 15:04]
Rambus Hit By Class-action Suit
News Following a complex ruling in the legal battle between chip companies Rambus and Infineon, a group of Rambus investors has filed a class-action lawsuit against the company, alleging violations of federal securities laws.
[August 13, 2001, 17:26]
Cisco Settles Class Action Lawsuit
News Cisco has settled a class action suit brought by shareholders who claimed that the company had misled its investors. Cisco continues to firmly believe that the suit's claims are without merit, and we have been eager to achieve a victory in this...
[August 18, 2006, 18:15]
Sony Settles Class Action Lawsuit Over DRM
News Sony BMG met lawyers from the firm handling the class action suit in early December and engaged in "virtual round-the-clock settlement negotiations", according to the settlement filing, which has been posted on the Sunbelt Software Web site.
[December 29, 2005, 13:55]
Sellers Sue EBay Over Double-billing
News A pair of eBay members have initiated a class-action-suit against the online auctioneer over a problem with the company's latest billing system. As a result, PayPal said it would pay a total of $9.25m to settle the federal class-action suit, $3.4m...
[July 6, 2004, 16:45]
Microsoft Set To Refund $1bn
News A California judge on Friday gave preliminary approval to a landmark settlement under which Microsoft will pay $1.1bn (£690m) to settle a class-action suit that claimed it overcharged consumers for Windows.
[July 21, 2003, 7:47]
Microsoft Knocks Legality Of Lindows' Claim Site
News Microsoft has demanded that Lindows.com take down a Web site that offers to process customer claims from the settlement of a California class-action suit against the software giant. Lindows announced the MSfreePC service earlier this month...
[September 30, 2003, 10:00]
Lawsuit Opens New Can Of Worms For Microsoft
News The proposed class-action suit, filed this week in Los Angeles Superior Court, comes as the company is admitting that its reliance on software patches for fixing security problems hasn't worked. On the legal front, Microsoft's first step will be to...
[October 7, 2003, 11:50]
Apple G3 Owners Win OS X Refund
News The proposed deal offers customers two options, said Thomas Ferlauto of King & Ferlauto, the Los Angeles-based law firm that brought the class-action suit. The suit claimed that Apple had promised that OS X would be "fully optimised" to run on all...
[August 14, 2003, 11:30]
Dell Sued Over Fraud Allegations
News The suit, filed in San Francisco County Superior Court on 14 February, seeks class action status in California and accuses Dell of "bait and switch" practices, false advertising, fraud and deceit in sales and advertising, and breach of contract.
[February 24, 2005, 13:00]
Microsoft's $1bn Settlement With Consumers
News Microsoft said late Friday that it has settled a California class-action lawsuit for up to $1.1bn (£680m), a move that would end the largest suit of the kind against the giant software company. Eighty percent of the (Windows) licenses were licensed...
[January 11, 2003, 8:15]
PC Makers Hit With 'copycat' Suits
News Toshiba on Friday settled a class-action suit that alleged it had knowingly sold computers with a floppy-disk controller that could cause data loss. The case appears to closely follow the case Toshiba chose to settle, and a Compaq official called...
[November 2, 1999, 8:14]
Salesforce.com Hit By Third Lawsuit
News The suit was filed on Thursday in US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina on behalf of investors who purchased shares during the company's stock launch last month. It's the third shareholder suit to target Salesforce with...
[August 2, 2004, 10:10]
Why AOL Holds All The Keys
News In February, lawyers filed a class-action suit in US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, on behalf of an estimated 8 million AOL 5.0 users. ISPs CapuNet, Digizen and Millkern Communications filed a similar class-action suit on February 8 in...
[April 17, 2000, 16:07]
US Report: New Windows 98 Warnings
News On Wednesday, Dag Hinrichs filed a class action breach-of-contract and breach-of-warranty suit against Microsoft over the failure of the product to perform as advertised. The class action suit and latest OEM complaints come on the heels of a...
[July 20, 1998, 9:19]
A Year Ago: New Windows 98 Warnings
News On Wednesday, Dag Hinrichs filed a class action breach-of-contract and breach-of-warranty suit against Microsoft over the failure of the product to perform as advertised. The class action suit and latest OEM complaints come on the heels of a...
[July 21, 1999, 6:31]
Rogue PeopleSoft Shareholders Turn On Company
News PeopleSoft expanded the suit to include "extensive new facts about Oracle management's ongoing acts of unfair trade practices, including its efforts to disrupt PeopleSoft's customer relationships. The amended suit alleges that Oracle deliberately...
[August 18, 2003, 9:40]
Microsoft Settles Another Six Suits
News The company used its announcement of the settlements to put a positive face on its interminable legal woes, noting that the US Justice Department has settled its antitrust suit and that of the 20 state attorneys general who originally sued, only...
[October 29, 2003, 8:45]
A Year Ago: New MS Suits Opening Pandora's Box?
News Although companies such as Sun Microsystems, Bristol Technology and Blue Mountain Arts have also filed suits alleging various types of anti-competitive practices, last week's Lingo suit is among the first -- if not the first -- private suit...
[February 23, 2000, 6:10]
