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GTA San Andreas Class Action Decertified

By Chris Bennett, Tudor Carsten, Michael R. Coburn, Sarah Dale-Harris, Pablo Guzman, Danielle (Dani) Lemon, Chris Metcalfe and David Spratley

Though Take Two had been nearing settlement with the plaintiffs in a class action who claimed to have been offended by hidden, sexual content in Take Two's GTA San Andreas Game - a.k.a. the Hot Coffee modification - those negotiations have now been derailed with the decertification of the plaintiffs' class action.

The decertification comes as a result of the decision of Judge S.W. Kram of the federal court in New York. Her Honour reasoned that, insofar as the class plaintiffs were from a number of different states and the potential class would be subject to the laws of each such state, the matter could not be resolved as a single dispute in New York federal court.

Coverage at: GamePolitics

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Full post as published by Video Game Law Blog on August 09, 2008 (boomark / email).