Judge Trips Up Settlement In Hot Coffee Class-Action

GamePolitics is reporting that a judge has put another substantial hurdle in the Hot Coffee class-action case. Claiming that individuals involved in the suit could be affected differently by laws in their respective states, Judge Shirley Wohl Kram declared that this case could not be resolved by a single proceeding. "'Accordingly, the court decertifies the settlement class on the grounds that common issues do not predominate over individualized issues,' the judge wrote. The judge's latest decision undermines a settlement agreement reached between lawyers for purchasers of the game who contended they were offended by the hidden scenes, on the one hand, and lawyers for the game's makers, Take-Two Interactive Software and Rockstar Games."

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Re:The Judge is an Idiot!

[nomadic]

That's not how it works. The judge in this case approved a conditional class, but never granted a final class certification. They were supposed to be doing class discovery, which means do factual investigation about whether the plaintiffs really should be certified as a class. Last year Rockstar filed an objection to class certification, then while that was pending decided to negotiate a settlement. Don't blame the judge for their mistake.

Re:This case should have been finished long before

[BPPG]

you're half right, but it was hidden content in the sense that it was inaccessible, at least without the patch or some memory hacking. It was there, the mini game was there and the skins were there. It wasn't even an Easter Egg. But it was still there in the game. All that the patch did was 'unlock' it.