class action lawsuit

Motorola Solutions Inc was declined to dismiss a class action lawsuit filed against the company over allegations that it misled its shareholders about deteriorating prospects for its cellphone business, resulting in investment losses.

On Monday, US District Judge Amy St. Eve in Chicago ruled there is a "genuine dispute" as to whether predecessor company Motorola Inc in 2006 and early 2007 hid key information about its ability to compete with such rivals as Nokia Oyj and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.

A lawsuit was launched against AOL and its subsidiary The Huffington Post that seeks $100 million in damages.

The class action suit launched with the Manhattan federal court claims that The Huffington Post unfairly pocketed more than $100 million from its unpaid bloggers when AOL Inc bought the influential news website in February.

Facebook is facing a class action lawsuit launched by a group of its users over the recent amendments introduced by the social networking site into its privacy policy.

The filing submitted with the US District Court for the Northern District of California states that the changes in fact reduced privacy protections instead of increasing them for Facebook users.

 US law firm Abington IP last week published a webpage offering affected users of Xbox 360 to come forward and launch a class action lawsuit against Microsoft. The website posting says: