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by dakotasmith 5204 days ago
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.
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wilfra 5204 days 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

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.

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uxp 5204 days 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-los...

http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/24/2822384/att-loses-data-thr...

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-850-for-everyone-what-hap...

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/att-throttling-cust...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/mickeymeece/2012/02/25/throttle-...

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Jimmie 5204 days 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.
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dakotasmith 5202 days ago
You see my point exactly, if you could find 10 people in March, I'm sure April has 10 more. Or 100 more.
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