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Your Rights Online: Bush Supreme Court Nominee Former Microsoft Lawyer
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 04, @09:55AM
from the well-thats-one-way-to-get-at-this-story dept. DaveM writes "Bush's most recent Supreme Court nominee, Harriet Miers, successfully argued that people who were sold defective software by Microsoft weren't "injured," and couldn't participate in a class action against the company. The case involved unstable compression features in MS DOS 6.0, which were corrected by a $9.95 update, MS DOS 6.2. Plaintiffs wanted Microsoft to offer the updates for free, but eventually lost to Miers' arguments."
link to story with details -
http://www.slingshot.org/?p=135