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Woman fails in bid to sue "Apple's greedy vultures"

By Reuters

Posted on 20 May 2010 at 11:21

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Apple that accused company employees of waiting like "vultures" to spy on her every time she used an Apple laptop to access the internet.

Leslie Carr sought to recover $60 million for trauma, which she said kept her from publishing on the web. She alleged, among other things, that each time she used the laptop to go online, "there would be a mass number of Apple employees waiting greedily like vultures to survey and monitor my life."

But US District Judge Richard Berman said the complaint "fails to state a plausible claim for relief. Where, as here, a complaint is asserting unrealistic and unsupportable claims, a court may dismiss it."

Carr did not return a call seeking comment.

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$60 million for their trauma?

Are they mad?

By Connor on 20 May 2010

Ah, but if you read the court's judgement you will find that they never actually proved that Apple wasn't spying on her.

A new Apple conspiracy?

By Perfectblue97 on 20 May 2010

We don't spy on people. Ever. Nice shoes by the way.

By rozman on 20 May 2010

why didn't she sell her Mac and buy a different company. Have I missed something?

By TimoGunt on 20 May 2010

you haven't missed something, she was just trying it on! Perhaps there's some Scottish Heritage in her ;) haha!

By anthonysjones on 20 May 2010

Aren't there enough genuine issues with Apple's business practices to explore without having to rely on punters with mental health problems?

By Noghar on 20 May 2010

Poor woman obviously forgot her tinfoil hat...

By SwissMac on 20 May 2010

yeah tinfoil hat sums it up. It should never have got to court and where the 60 million figure came from is insane

By TimoGunt on 20 May 2010

See the positive...

...as there's always some. It just means that another loonatic bought a Mac. That's one Mac less to go into an innocent person's hands :>

By Josefov on 20 May 2010

it's the stupid greedy vulture lawyers that she should be suing, for even thinking this case could be a winner (even in the US!!)

By pauld1024 on 20 May 2010

Haha, I never thought I'd be on the side of Apple in a lawsuit!

It's crazy to think that it's got this far though. Where does the the money for such a case come from?

By atomz on 20 May 2010

Are they mad?

no, maybe they are right. You have the right to get After-Sales Service. I'm working in ifunia and we sale video converter and dvd ripper, and we paying more atteintion to customers problem after they have got our products. These are other styles of "bid".

By Radovich on 21 May 2010

Could you stop spamming, please?

Radovich, you've been chased out with torches and pitchforks from the Forum already, do we need to hunt you down in the Comments as well?

No one here is going to buy your lousy software, just go away.

By Josefov on 21 May 2010

"Perhaps there's some Scottish Heritage in her"

Would that be "Old Scottish Heritage" mature whiskey, by any chance?

By Perfectblue97 on 21 May 2010

Josefov:

You have to ask yourself, why do people both with spam like that. Even the lady in this article isn't crazy enough to buy software that she read about on comment spam.

By Perfectblue97 on 21 May 2010

I see a link!

The lady in question failed to get 60 million, and now she is masquerading as a spammer named 'Radovich' trying to make 60 million from ifunia.

There.

Now that would make Sherlock Holmes proud!

By mohummud on 27 May 2010

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