Willem Vroegh v. Eastman Kodak Company

Vroegh v. Eastman Kodak Company, et al. is a class action complaint that alleges that the defendants, "n marketing, advertising and/or packaging their Flash Memory Cards and Flash Memory Drives, Defendants misrepresent the size of the memory storage contained in the Flash Memory Cards and Flash Memory Drives." The complaint accuses the defendants of "false advertising, unfair business practices, breach of contract, fraud, deceit and/or misrepresentation, and violation of the California Consumers Legal Remedy Act".

Facts

The complaint, case number CGC-04-428953, was originally filed in Superior Court of the State of California for the county of San Francisco on February 20, 2004. The complaint was first filed as "Vroegh vs. Dane Elec Corp., USA, A Foreign Corporation et al." When Dane-Elec settled and was dismissed from the case on March 15, 2005, Eastman Kodak became the first defendant. Another plaintiff intervened in January 2004.

The complaint originally named the following companies as defendants:

• Dane-Elec Corp. USA
• Fujifilm USA, Inc.
• Eastman Kodak Company
• Kingston Technology Corporation
• Lexar Media, Inc.
• Memorex Products, Inc.
• PNY Technologies, Inc.
• SanDisk Corporation
• Verbatim Corporation
• Viking Components Incorporated
• And up to 200 defendants "to be named at a later date".

The gravamen of the complaint is the alleged loss in hard drive capacity that is caused...
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