Apple iPhone users may soon start to receive around Rs 5400 ($65) from Apple as the Rs 4169 crore ($500 million) lawsuit may soon come to an end. As per a report by IANS, a US court judge has given final nod to allow payments to Apple iPhone users who are affected by ‘batterygate’ issue in a class-action lawsuit. Each affected Apple iPhone user is expected to get a return of more than Rs 5000.
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For those who are unaware, in 2018 a lawsuit was filed against Apple after consumers complained their phones were shutting off even though the batteries showed a charge of more than 30 per cent. The devices at issue were iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6s, 6s Plus, and SE devices running operating systems iOS 10.2.1 or later before December 21, 2017, and iPhone 7 and 7 Plus phones running iOS 11.2 or later before that date. The iPhone maker in 2020 agreed to pay up to $500 million to resolve the lawsuit.
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The law firm Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy representing Apple customers, said that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed an appeal challenging the historic agreement with Apple to settle a nationwide class-action.
After years of litigation, the team at CPM, along with co-lead counsel, Kaplan Fox, successfully negotiated the settlement — the largest all-cash recovery in a computer intrusion case in history — on behalf of a class of approximately 100 million iPhone users.
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‘The settlement is the result of years of investigation and hotly contested litigation. We are extremely proud that this deal has been approved, and following the Ninth Circuit’s order, we can finally provide immediate cash payments to impacted Apple customers,’ said Mark C. Molumphy, a partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy. (with inputs from IANS)
