Modified Class Certification Granted In Hp False Printer Ad Claim
By Kat Sieniuc.
Law360, New York (September 9, 2016) — A California federal judge has partially certified a class of Hewlett Packard customers in that state who say the company falsely claimed a series of laser printers were "easy" to install, but declined to extend that certification to printer buyers across the country.
In a Sept. 1 order that was entered into the court's docket on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Beverly Reid O’Connell certified a class of California consumers who sometime after April 2014 purchased HP's Laser Jet P1102 printers the buyers claim promised a “smart…