Posts tagged Class Action

Class action lawsuit over Xbox Live consumer fraud

by Alexander Sliwinski (Nov 14th 2007 1:27PM)

Francisco Garcia is suing Microsoft in a class action lawsuit for consumer fraud because Microsoft allowed his son to improperly use his debit card to sign up for Xbox Live. He apparently didn't notice this until a year later when he got charged with the Xbox Live auto-renew fee, but because he ...

Sony to cough up $8.5m settlement, devs finally get paid

by James Ransom-Wiley (Jun 27th 2007 5:57PM)

The law offices of Shapiro, Haber & Urmy have publicized the settlement terms of a class action lawsuit filed against SCEA in February 2005, which alleged that the company failed to compensate a number of game developers for overtime work. The settlement will see $8.5 million paid out to ...

Class action lawsuit could be building against Microsoft for 360 fall update woes

by James Ransom-Wiley (Dec 7th 2006 11:55AM)

Team Xbox has singled out a recent posting on the official Xbox forums declaring a class action lawsuit has been filed against Microsoft because of hardware problems initiated by the Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update. The alleged plaintiff, known by gamertag REDRUM6622, has supposedly accused Microsoft ...