A class action lawsuit has been filed against computer maker Dell. The lawsuit alleges that the company has 5,000 underpaid call center employees.
The lawsuit was given class-action status last week by a federal judge in Oregon. The suit shall include all U.S. Dell call center employees who worked for the company from February 8, 2004 to the present.
Two employees filed the lawsuit in February 2007 claiming that they were not properly paid for overtime, training, and work preparation time. The employees seek payment for their missing wages, including interest, and to fund the attorneys’ fees.
Apple has finally settled a pair of Canadian class action lawsuits that accused Apple of misleading their customers about the battery life of its portable music players – the Apple iPods.
The class-action lawsuits were filed in Canada by Inez Lenzi and Bradley Waddell. The lawsuits charged Apple of misleading consumers about the iPod’s battery life. Under the terms of settlement, consumers who bought specific iPods in Canada on or before June 24, 2004, are eligible for a $45 CDN credit in the Apple Canada online store.
According to the lawsuits, Apple allegedly claimed that the iPods were capable of 8 to 10 hours of continuous music playback. However, user experience tells that the battery life of the iPods declined over time and some even claimed that a fully-charged music player is good only for two or three hours of music playback.
Miley Cyrus has become quite a popular personality thanks to the Hannah Montana show on Disney. Thus it is not surprising that thousands of fans are trying their best to get to the Hannah Montana live show. Unfortunately, not all of them were able to get tickets despite the promise made by Miley Cyrus’ official website.
Now things get serious. Ticketless fans are now turning to the law for a resolution.
Two popular law firms have announced that they have filed class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee against Interactive Media Marketing, Inc. and Smiley Miley Inc. This is on behalf of a New Jersey woman and anyone else who joined the Miley Cyrus Fan Club at mileyworld.com which promised that joining the fans club would make it easier to get Hannah Montana concert tickets.
Genzyme Corporation, a U.S. biotechnology company announced on Thursday that it reached an agreement in principle to settle a shareholder class-action lawsuit for a whopping $64 million. The lawsuit in question seeks the consolidation of the biotechnology company’s tracking stock structure in 2003.
The company said that it used a formula in its charter to determine the share prices for the purpose of exchanging shares from the smaller oncology and biosurgery businesses.
However, some biosurgery shareholders felt that something was wrong with the move. The timing of the consolidation hurt the value of the shareholders’ holdings and a class- action lawsuit was filed on their behalf.
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has been attacked with quite a number of criticisms lately. Just last week, a class action lawsuit was filed in a Florida court alleging that Microsoft negligently manufactured the Xbox 360 console in a way that causes the expensive game discs to be scratched, rendering the games unusable.
Just this Monday, a similar case was filed in the U.S. District Court for Southern California by two residents of the state: Christine Moskowitz and Dan Wood. The lawsuit is seeking not less than $5 million in damages for Xbox 360 buyers affected by the alleged glitch.
Moskowitz said in the California court filing that in March 2006, she bought for her son an Xbox 360, along with the popular games Gears of War, Crackdown, and Saints Row. Within a few months of using the game discs, they bore circular scratch marks and wouldn’t work properly.
Apple is being sued for making false claims about the superior display capabilities of its MacBook and MacBook Pro.
The class action suit which was filed by the law offices of Peter Polischuk and Robert Dreher on behalf of a class of plaintiffs, alleges that Apple’s marketing claims such as “a nuanced view simply unavailable on other portables”, “TFT display with support for millions of colors” and Aperture’s “the ultimate photographer’s workstation” are at least in part, constituent of deception and misrepresentation.
The plaintiffs say that instead of adhering to the aforementioned degree of refinement, MacBook and MacBook Pro displays have exhibited grainy or sparkly quality, banding in gradients, and distracting lines of distortion.