Oct 15

First Sidekick class-action lawsuits predictably get underway

Posted in: lawsuit, legal, Microsoft, t-mobile, Today's Chili

Our usual rule is to ignore attention-seeking class-action lawsuits until they make it past the critical step of being certified by a judge, but we think it’s pretty wild that the Sidekick debacle has already resulted in two separate suits in two different states. That’s a turnaround time of just a few days, really — and now that Microsoft is saying it can restore most of the lost data, it’ll be interesting to see if these cases can push on past the early stages. Both the California and Washington state cases allege that T-Mobile misled customers into thinking their data was secure, but for some reason we’re particularly amused at the California case filed by a mother whose aspiring model and singer-songwriter daughter lost “photos and song lyrics” she’d entrusted to her Sidekick — honestly, what judge can’t relate to her situation?

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