Ohio sues Best Buy, alleges deceptive sales practices
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Best Buy Co., the biggest electronics retailer in the nation, was sued yesterday by Ohio&#39;s attorney general, who accused the company of deceptive sales practices such as repackaging used merchandise and selling it as new.
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A Washington, D.C., woman has filed a lawsuit seeking $54 million in damages from Best Buy after the electronics retailer lost her laptop computer last year.The lawsuit was filed in D.C. superior court last November but was publicized in media outlets this week. According to plaintiff Raelyn Campbell, Geek Squad technicians at Best Buy&#39;s Tenleytown, D.C., store lost the computer sometime around July 2007, then the company misled her about its whereabouts for a few weeks before finally admitting on Aug. 9 that it had been lost.Best Buy offered Campbell $1,110 and a $500 gift card in compensation, something she calls a &quot;lowball&quot; offer on a blog she has devoted to the issue.According to her, the point of the lawsuit is to publicly embarrass Best Buy into changing its privacy policy in such cases.&quot;To me, the big issue is not the low-balling and bullying tactics, but Best Buy&#39;s systematic disregard for its customers&#39; personal information and potential exposure to identity theft,&quot; she wrote in her blog. &quot;I am hoping the attention that the lawsuit and this website generate might motivate Best Buy and other consumer electronics stores entrusted with products that contain consumers&#39; personal information to adopt thorough procedures and policies to safeguard customers&#39; property and personal information against theft.&quot;Best Buy can&#39;t say much about the issue because it&#39;s still before the court, but the company is working to find out what went wrong, according to company spokeswoman Nissa French.&quot;We&#39;re obviously embarrassed and disappointed that we were unable to resolve this customer&#39;s issue. We&#39;ve tried to resolve this dispute and feel badly that it escalated to a lawsuit,&quot; she said in an e-mail.Campbell could not be reached for comment.On her blog, she admitted that the $54 million in damages she was seeking was an &quot;absurd amount,&quot; but said that she chose such a large sum in order to draw attention to the problem.Laptop thefts are frequently the source of widely publicized data breaches. On Wednesday, Lifeblood, a Memphis, Tennessee, blood collection agency, said it was notifying 320,000 blood donors after two of its laptops went missing. The computers contained personal information including Social Security numbers.The issue of computer retailers and repair shops losing consumer laptops has not gained much attention, but Campbell believes these companies have a &quot;legal and moral obligation&quot; to safeguard confidential information on computers that are entrusted to them.Although Campbell&#39;s situation is an unusual one, it makes sense for Best Buy to take extra steps to protect its customers&#39; privacy by offering ID theft protection services, said Paul Stephens, director of policy and advocacy with Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a privacy advocacy group that tracks data breaches. &quot;We&#39;re talking about a loss of something that&#39;s been entrusted to them,&quot; he said. &quot;As a bare minimum, they should be doing that.&quot;
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Earthlink filed a federal lawsuit in Atlanta, Georgia, accusing 50 &quot;John Does&quot; of violating the federal CAN-SPAM Act and various other state and federal statutes, including the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Georgia Computer Systems Protection
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Retailer Sears, Roebuck & Co has been hit with a lawsuit seeking class-action status that alleges a company Web site compromises customers' private information.
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The computer maker is filing a lawsuit accusing a 19-year-old Harvard freshman of illegally misappropriating trade secrets on an Internet Web site.
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TWO WEB SITES: A probe by the Connecticut attorney general centers on two nearly identical Best Buy Web sites &#151; the one available to the public, the other only to employees &#151; that featured varying prices on some merchandise.
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Minnesota&#39;s attorney general yesterday sued two subsidiaries of Capital One Financial Corp., contending that their &quot;No Hassle&quot; credit card ads were false, deceptive and misleading because
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Microsoft and Amazon.com Monday filed one joint and several separate lawsuits against companies and individuals accusing them variously of trying to defraud consumers by imitating Amazon and Microsoft, the companies said Tuesday.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. - The Pennsylvania attorney generalâs office Monday sued an online university for allegedly selling bogus academic degrees - including an MBA awarded to a cat.
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The state attorney general filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday accusing a sales catalog company of actually being a loansharking operation that preys on cash-strapped military families.
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Best Buy has quietly settled a three-year-old age discrimination lawsuit that was filed by 44 former IT workers after the electronics retailer outsourced its IT operations to Accenture.
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Verizon Wireless customers are suing  the mobile service provider, claiming that it is selling a cell  phone with fewer Bluetooth short range radio features than they  expected, the plaintiffs' lawyer said on Thursday
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Console maker accused of fraud, accuses bank of misrepresentation
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Â· Company accused of circumventing bribery lawÂ·  Firm accuses ex-manager of taking kickbacks
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Lawsuits against 23 companies in California and Florida allege distribution of counterfeit software.
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The state of Ohio has filed an anti-trust lawsuit accusing Marsh & McLennan Cos, the world's largest insurer, AIG  and three other insurers and their subsidiaries of price fixing and other anti-competitive behavior, Attorney General Marc Dann said on Monday.
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WATERTOWN, N.Y. - A woman who claims she was used as unknowing bait to catch a man taking photographs up women's skirts is suing retailer T.J. Maxx.