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Court Rules Against AT&T's Service Agreement

Posted by Soulskill on from the now-get-to-work-on-those-eulas dept.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is running a story about a recent ruling from the Washington State Supreme Court, which decided that AT&T's service agreement was not capable of waiving a customer's right to file a lawsuit against the company. The full opinion (PDF) is also available. From the conclusion: "AT&T's Consumer Services Agreement is substantively unconscionable and therefore unenforceable to the extent that it purports to waive the right to class actions, require confidentiality, shorten the Washington Consumer Protection Act statute of limitations, and limit availability of attorney fees. ... Courts will not be easily deceived by attempts to unilaterally strip away consumer protections and remedies by efforts to cloak the waiver of important rights under an arbitration clause."

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  1. Re:Road to overturn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, that may very well be that courts are turning them over, but I think everyone ought to step back and look at the bigger picture here.

    Motherfuckers are snooping on our data, and preventing us from communicating, albeit slowly over time, a missing newsgroup here, a port blocked there, a service contract here, a new limitation there.

    Now look, these fascist corporations are organized, they have to be, but WE are not organized, and if we don't want the future to be a fucking giant ebay with "Buy it Now" buttons we better speak the fuck up and SOON.

    Don't let this shit go like the fucking Constitution did. This is not a fucking EULA in a software, this is a fucking CHANGE to your existing rules whether you give a fuck or not, it's FORCED on you, by not paying attention you have agreed.

    Now you little cellphone users don't get it cause you don't even fucking KNOW what a copper line is! Prior to your little fucking mobile radios that are radiating everything, including your stupid fucking brains, some of us had a real fucking phone, that is wired up in a twisted pair. Now suddenly in 2008 after paying for that goddamn phone for 40+ years we have
    "Given up our motherfucking right to trial?!"

    I Don't fucking think so.

    No amount of , " OH bla bla bla this is no big deal." is going to be enough. You show ignorance and stupidity not to mention total disregard for our Constitution and our Country itself to play this down. Either that or your a cyber warrior for AT&T.

    Every one of these messages that play this down are full of shit.

    YOU DO NOT GIVE UP YOUR RIGHT TO TRIAL!

    Get that in your fucking heads!