Microsoft Class Action Suit in CA

kath · 11-05-2003

Here's the website with all the details - http://www.microsoftcalsettlement.com/

Anyone else get this? I mean - it's peanuts for each California consumer, yet it's a 1.1 billion class action suit... I *love* the part where it says that the lawyers can take up to $275,000,000 in legal fees & costs and up to $40k per Class Representative from the 27 coordinated cases.

It's an easy $100 for anyone who doesn't have documentation and just wants to file, get their chunk of change and move on - but wow... what a killing for the lawyers!

I'm seeing this trend everywhere I look... stupid class action lawsuits that give the consumers little-to-nada, the lawyers make a bundle and after the companies get hit - the consumers pay in price hikes. It's a never-ending cycle of f*** the consumer and everyone else gets rich!

Whatever happened to chasing ambulances? I mean sure, this is much more profitable (duh!) but I think the ambulance chasers were actually a little more respectable than these guys!

:grrr:

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11-05-2003	#1
kath Members Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: California, USA Posts: 1,340	Here's the website with all the details - http://www.microsoftcalsettlement.com/ Anyone else get this? I mean - it's peanuts for each California consumer, yet it's a 1.1 billion class action suit... I love the part where it says that the lawyers can take up to $275,000,000 in legal fees & costs and up to $40k per Class Representative from the 27 coordinated cases. It's an easy $100 for anyone who doesn't have documentation and just wants to file, get their chunk of change and move on - but wow... what a killing for the lawyers! I'm seeing this trend everywhere I look... stupid class action lawsuits that give the consumers little-to-nada, the lawyers make a bundle and after the companies get hit - the consumers pay in price hikes. It's a never-ending cycle of f*** the consumer and everyone else gets rich! Whatever happened to chasing ambulances? I mean sure, this is much more profitable (duh!) but I think the ambulance chasers were actually a little more respectable than these guys! :grrr: