Tag Archives: class action suit

Blizzard is being sued in a class action suit, filed last week, over “deceptively and unfairly” charging customers for Battle.net Authenticators to protect their private information from hackers.

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A class-action complaint filed against THQ with the US District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of shareholders by shareholder rights firm Robbins Umeda LLP, claims the firm misled its shareholders by misrepresenting or withholding critical sales information regarding the uDraw Tablet. The complaint charges THQ and some of its officers and directors with violating the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the period of May 3, 2011 to February 3, 2012 where the complaint states THQ provided “materially false and misleading” statements regarding the failed peripheral and that it “failed to disclose adverse facts” regarding the product line. The suit seeks “to recover damages on behalf of all purchasers of THQ common stock during the Class Period,” states the report on GI International.

Legal firm Edelson McGuire has filed a class-action lawsuit against EA on behalf of consumers who were promised a free copy of Battlefield 1943 as an incentive to purchase the PS3 version of Battlefield 3.

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Like Sony before it, EA has added a clause to its Origin EULA which would keep users from bringing a class-action suit against the firm. The updated terms-of-service agreement, once accepted by the participant foregoes the right to sue and have a jury trial, allowing only individual cases to be brought against it. Like Sony’s agreement, the Origin agreement includes an opt-out clause which much be submitted to EA in writing. You can thank AT&T and the Supreme Court for this.

Time for some more shorts to get you ready for Friday. Just think: when you wake up tomorrow, your work week will be almost over. Isn’t that grand?

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According to a class action lawsuit filed this week, Sony laid off employees who were responsible for the firm’s network security two weeks before the massive data breach occurred in April.

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A class action lawsuit was filed against Sony today over the security breach of PSN users personal information.

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An class action complaint filed against SCEA this month has been amended, with the claim that Sony removed the Other OS feature from PS3 in order to save money, not to protect the integrity of the system’s security.

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