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Title: Apple's $500M lawsuit on iPhone throttling gets delayed by COVID-19
Post by: HCK on May 17, 2020, 04:05:24 pm
Apple's $500M lawsuit on iPhone throttling gets delayed by COVID-19

Apple's iPhone throttling lawsuit is almost over.

What you need to know


Apple's throttling controversy lawsuit is coming to a close.
A federal judge in California has given preliminary approval on a settlement.
If agreed upon, Apple will pay up to $500 million to settle the lawsuit.


One of Apple's long-running class-action lawsuits seems to be close to a settlement. According to a report from Law360, a federal judge in California has given preliminary approval on the settlement on Friday. The judge, however, delayed the final approval due to the coronavirus outbreak.


  "During a hearing held via Zoom's videoconferencing tool, U.S. District Judge Edward J. Davila told the parties he wants to extend the final approval deadlines by a few weeks due to the COVID-19 crisis and he told them to meet and confer about proposing a new date for a final settlement approval hearing that would take place sometime in December."


The lawsuit is based on the company's decision to slow down old...

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