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Actually, class action lawsuits can be more easily dealt with, since the lawyers on both side negotiate the terms of the settlement. A litany of small claims c

Actually, class action lawsuits can be more easily dealt with, since the lawyers on both side negotiate the terms of the settlement. A litany of small claims court settlements would put more money in the hands of plaintiffs, not lawyers, and would be available in the news cycle for much longer than a class action lawsuit/settlement.

wilfra 15y ago
'One random guy wins $850 in small claims court from AT&T' - you think that is newsworthy? I disagree. We wouldn't have been hearing about this had AT&T not tried to shut him up. They will learn from this mistake. They just ran into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect The way to handle this if you are AT&T is to pay the $850 and then ignore anything else he does and wait for it to go away.
- Jimmie 15y ago
  Right, but 10 different people winning $850 in small claims court from AT&T would be newsworthy. It might convince more people to follow in their footsteps.
  - dakotasmith 15y ago
    You see my point exactly, if you could find 10 people in March, I'm sure April has 10 more. Or 100 more.
- uxp 15y ago
  > We wouldn't have been hearing about this had AT&T not tried to shut him up. We did year about it on the day the guy won his case. Yes, they are making more news out of a story they could have easily squashed, but it wasn't an unknown event that the guy won the initial case. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-01/at-and-t-loses-data-throttling-case-in-small-claims-court http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-01/at-and-t-los... http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/24/2822384/att-loses-data-throttling-case http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/24/2822384/att-loses-data-thr... http://paidcontent.org/article/419-850-for-everyone-what-happens-next-in-the-att-throttling-case/ http://paidcontent.org/article/419-850-for-everyone-what-hap... http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/att-throttling-customer/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/att-throttling-cust... http://www.forbes.com/sites/mickeymeece/2012/02/25/throttle-this-two-big-consumer-small-claims-victories/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/mickeymeece/2012/02/25/throttle-...

wilfra 15y ago

'One random guy wins $850 in small claims court from AT&T' - you think that is newsworthy? I disagree. We wouldn't have been hearing about this had AT&T not tried to shut him up. They will learn from this mistake. They just ran into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect The way to handle this if you are AT&T is to pay the $850 and then ignore anything else he does and wait for it to go away.

Jimmie 15y ago
Right, but 10 different people winning $850 in small claims court from AT&T would be newsworthy. It might convince more people to follow in their footsteps.
- dakotasmith 15y ago
  You see my point exactly, if you could find 10 people in March, I'm sure April has 10 more. Or 100 more.
uxp 15y ago
> We wouldn't have been hearing about this had AT&T not tried to shut him up. We did year about it on the day the guy won his case. Yes, they are making more news out of a story they could have easily squashed, but it wasn't an unknown event that the guy won the initial case. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-01/at-and-t-loses-data-throttling-case-in-small-claims-court http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-01/at-and-t-los... http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/24/2822384/att-loses-data-throttling-case http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/24/2822384/att-loses-data-thr... http://paidcontent.org/article/419-850-for-everyone-what-happens-next-in-the-att-throttling-case/ http://paidcontent.org/article/419-850-for-everyone-what-hap... http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/att-throttling-customer/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/att-throttling-cust... http://www.forbes.com/sites/mickeymeece/2012/02/25/throttle-this-two-big-consumer-small-claims-victories/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/mickeymeece/2012/02/25/throttle-...