Class Action

Submit a Claim: iPhone Class Action in Canada Now Open

You can now submit a claim for the Canadian iPhone Power Management Class Action Settlement, if you owned or purchased an iPhone 6 through iPhone 7 series or iPhone SE. A representative from Rochon Genova LLP confirmed to iPhone in Canada on Friday it’s now possible to file a claim, after the settlement was approved...

Canadian iPhone Class Action Settlement Decision Now Set for February

A British Columbia judge is set to make a decision next month on whether to approve a multimillion-dollar settlement in a class-action lawsuit against Apple. The lawsuit, filed in 2018, alleges that the company deliberately slowed down older iPhone models through software updates. The case was brought to a Vancouver courtroom on Monday, where lawyers...

Cineplex Faces Class Action Lawsuits Over Online Booking Fees

Vancouver-based law firm, Slater Vecchio LLP, has launched class action lawsuits against theatre chain Cineplex in British Columbia and Quebec. The suits allege that Cineplex's practice of not disclosing online booking fees at the beginning of the ticket purchasing process constitutes false and misleading advertising. These lawsuits aim to represent all Canadian consumers who were...

Meta to Pay $51 Million to Some Canadians in Class Action Lawsuit

Meta looks ready to pay up to settle a class action lawsuit that affects Canadians in four provinces, according to an email received by iPhone in Canada. Following the Proposed Settlement Agreement of the Deborah Louise Douez vs Meta class action, MNP has been appointed by the Supreme Court of British Columbia to oversee the...

Apple Agrees to Pay Canadians Up to $14 Million in Class Action

A settlement has been reached between Apple Canada in a class action lawsuit involving certain iPhone models, over allegations of throttling in older models (via MacRumors). The B.C. Supreme Court will decided whether or not to approve this settlement, with a critical hearing scheduled for January 29, 2024, at the courthouse located at 800 Smithe...

Apple Settles Class Action Lawsuit Over Family Sharing for $25 Million

Apple has reached a $25 million USD ($33.4 million CAD) settlement in a class action lawsuit filed in the United States, concerning its Family Sharing feature. The lawsuit, initiated in 2019, accused Apple of misrepresenting how subscriptions to third-party apps functioned with Family Sharing. The Family Sharing feature, while allowing users to share app subscriptions,...

$30 Million Electronics Class-Action Settlement Payouts are Here

The concluded Optical Disc Drive (ODD) price-fixing lawsuit has announced that all necessary assessments of undocumented claims have been completed, and $20 CAD payments have started rolling out this month. ODDs, which include any device reading or writing data from an optical disc, and their products, are at the heart of a class action suit...

$50 Million CRT Class Action Starts Sending Payouts After Appeals Delay

Back in August 2020, the $49.8 million Canadian CRT class action settlement announced it was ready to start sending out payments, 21 months after the case was approved. The class action was related to alleged price-fixing by numerous makers of cathode ray tube (CRT) monitors in Canada, involving companies such as Samsung, Panasonic, Toshiba, Hitachi,...