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Apple, Samsung, others sued over Carrier IQ scandal

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 5th, 2011)

While the tech world was buzzing last week about Carrier IQ, one group of lawyers was busy preparing a class action complaint. The complaint was filed in Federal Court in Wilmington, Delaware by three local law firms: Sianni & Straite of Wilmington, DE; Eichen Crutchlow Zaslow & McElroy ...

Daily Update for September 26, 2011

by Steven Sande (Sep 26th, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes, which is perfect for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the ...

iPhone privacy class action case thrown out

by Steven Sande (Sep 26th, 2011)

It appears that Apple has one less legal headache to worry about. According to Eric Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog, a class action suit alleging that Apple, app developers, and mobile advertising companies violated the privacy rights of iPhone users has been dismissed for lack of ...

Apple involved in class-action lawsuit over ebook pricing

by Chris Rawson (Aug 10th, 2011)

On today's episode of The Daily Lawsuit: law firm Hagens Berman has filed a class action lawsuit against Apple and five of the major book publishing houses. The suit claims Apple and these publishers have conspired to raise prices on ebooks. According to the suit, Amazon's loss-leading ...

Lawsuit says AT&T overcharging users for iPhone, iPad data

by Michael Grothaus (May 20th, 2011)

A new class action lawsuit claims that AT&T "systematically overstated data usage by 7-14 percent and sometimes up to 300 percent" on users' iPhone and iPad data plans, according to MSNBC. The lawyers for the suit have said that they have spent over US$80,000 testing iPhones on AT&T's ...

Antitrust class action lawsuit filed against Apple, others over anti-poaching agreements

by Michael Grothaus (May 4th, 2011)

The law firm of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein has announced that they have filed a class action lawsuit against Apple and other major tech companies on behalf of a Lucasfilm employee. The lawsuit alleges that the tech companies took part in illegal "no solicitation" agreements that barred ...

Steve Jobs ordered to provide antitrust deposition

by Chris Ward (Mar 23rd, 2011)

There are some days when it feels like Steve Jobs is the only person who works at Apple, judging by the number of times his name is cited when anyone has a complaint against the company. Now, a US judge has ordered him to answer questions relating to monopolistic behavior over the iPod and ...

Lawsuit claims AT&T "systematically" overcharges iPhone, iPad owners

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 1st, 2011)

A lawsuit filed in California federal court claims AT&T "systematically" overcharged iPhone and iPad owners by inflating the amount of data downloaded by each customer and tacking on "phantom traffic" to the month-long tally. The lawsuit was filed by Patrick Hendricks who asserts AT&T ...

Original iPod nano owners benefit from scratch settlement

by Michael Rose (Jan 24th, 2009)

The first generation of iPod nano models may have been small and sleek, but they also apparently had an image problem -- mainly, that it rapidly grew difficult to see the screen after the nicks and scratches began to accumulate on the face of the player. As far back as 2005, users expressed their ...

More lawsuits for Apple over 3G data speeds

by Robert Palmer (Sep 3rd, 2008)

In an oddly prescient lawsuit filed yesterday, a San Diego man claims that Apple and AT&T knowingly oversold the iPhone 3G, and overloaded the network, causing slow data throughput. We may never know if this morning's outage was in any way related to the claims the man, William J. Gillis, makes ...

Woman sues Apple, claims false iPhone advertising

by Robert Palmer (Aug 22nd, 2008)

A Birmingham, Alabama, woman has sued Apple, claiming its television advertisements about the iPhone 3G being twice as fast as its predecessor are false. She also claims her handset is defective. The woman, Jessica Smith, is seeking class-action status for her suit. According to The Birmingham ...

Man to sue over 1.1.1 iBricking

by Erica Sadun (Oct 8th, 2007)

ComputerWorld reports that Timothy Smith, an iPhone owner in California, plans to sue Apple for violating antitrust law. His claim rests on the fact that Apple forces consumers to use AT&T as their sole wireless carrier and that the 1.1.1 update bricked phones that were unlocked for other ...

New iPhone class action filed in NY over iPhone SIM lock-in, international roaming fees

by David Chartier (Aug 27th, 2007)

You know what they say: let the good times class action lawsuits roll! Or something like that. The latest in what I'm sure is to be a long list of iPhone-related class action lawsuits was filed in New York today over the iPhone's SIM card lock-in, as well as what the plaintiff alleges is Apple ...

Class action lawsuits filed against Apple

by David Chartier (Jan 2nd, 2007)

Just when you think Apple's financial woes have begun to recede, Forbes.com alerts us to a slew of recently filed class action lawsuits that all have the big fruit in their sights. First up is yet another complaint alleging that Apple has created a monopoly by tying iTS purchases to the iPod and ...

Apple settles 17-inch Studio Display class action

by Laurie A. Duncan (Nov 13th, 2006)

Apple has agreed to a settlement in the Class Action Suit regarding allegedly defective inverter boards that caused problems with 17-inch Studio Displays. Although Apple won't admit any wrongdoing (as is usually the case in these kinds of settlements), it has agreed to settle the claim in order to ...