Apple Loses Bid to Shut Down UK iPhone Class Action Suit
- UK suit against Apple given provisional green light by judges
- Suit alleges software updates harmed battery, slowed speed
An Apple Inc. store in London.
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Apple Inc. has lost a bid to dismiss a London class action lawsuit that accused it of misleading customers on a controversial power management tool in iPhones.
The Competition Appeal Tribunal, the court which deals with the UK’s collective proceedings, ruled the class action can now provisionally go ahead, according to a ruling on Wednesday. Lawyers for Apple had asked for the case to be struck out on the grounds that the devices in question were substandard.