xbox lawsuit

A lawsuit brought over a disc-scratching defect attributed to the Xbox 360’s design will move forward following an appellate court’s rejection of Microsoft’s attempts to keep it from becoming a class action. In March, a three-judge panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had overruled a district court decision denying a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft (though not throwing out the case itself). Microsoft had asked the entire court to reconsider that ruling, and that motion has been denied. Unless Microsoft appeals that to the U.S. Supreme Court, the case is set to proceed in federal district court, where it may become a class action. The plaintiffs argue that even under normal playing conditions, the disc drive is so sensitive that it spins discs out of control...