Lawyers for the company and class members in a lawsuit originally filed in 2018 were in a
Michael Peerless, a lawyer for the class, told Justice
He said the settlement was "hard fought" after “lengthy and difficult negotiations" with the company, and said the amounts proposed to be paid out is “in the range that a consumer should hope for.”
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Peerless said the claims process will be very "simple," with an online and paper-based option for people to use if they bought devices that had slow performance and battery issues.
"It provides real, not massively large, but real monetary benefits. It's not a coupon settlement, this is cash and it offers reasonable recovery for what class members suffered," Peerless said.
It would've taken "multiple more years" to get paid out had the case gone to trial, he said, and there'd be no guarantee of success or a bigger payout had they gone that route.
"The damages in a case like this are difficult to quantify," Peerless said. "There's no real judicial guidance for something like this. We're never going to have a
"But what we were able to do is to negotiate the maximum amount achievable for a very large number of class members in this case," he said.
He said notice of the settlement was provided to about nine million class members by email, and 10,000 by physical mail, while also receiving "significant media coverage."
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The judge has reserved her decision on approving the settlement until
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