Starbucks $5M lawsuit over too much ice in its iced beverages

[GURPS]

And when it comes to the former, the class actions that I've found related to the size of the screen not actually being what was listed, not to the listed size being the diagonal rather than the length of a side.

1997 - When Keith Long unpacked his new Packard Bell computer monitor in September of 1993, there was one thing missing. An inch.

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According to the plaintiffs, monitor screens are on average 17 percent, and as much as 30 percent, smaller than advertised. Defendants argued that the screens are sized as advertised, but said that part of the screen is obscured by the monitor bezel, or the front part of the plastic cabinet. Monitor makers refer to the screen area that isn't obscured as the "viewable area" in their ads.

Long's class-action lawsuit is in fact one of about a dozen similar cases that currently are reaching their second collective settlement.

A first settlement, negotiated by the California Attorney General's Office, ended in the computer companies giving the California public schools $1.5 million and remunerating the Merced District Attorney's Office $200,000 in costs.

....... as long as I have been buying computers, I understood 15 inches wasn't 15 inches

ya know the Ford 302 isn't nor is it 5 liters its 301.59 / 4.9

 

[Tilted]

1997 - When Keith Long unpacked his new Packard Bell computer monitor in September of 1993, there was one thing missing. An inch.

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According to the plaintiffs, monitor screens are on average 17 percent, and as much as 30 percent, smaller than advertised. Defendants argued that the screens are sized as advertised, but said that part of the screen is obscured by the monitor bezel, or the front part of the plastic cabinet. Monitor makers refer to the screen area that isn't obscured as the "viewable area" in their ads.

Long's class-action lawsuit is in fact one of about a dozen similar cases that currently are reaching their second collective settlement.

A first settlement, negotiated by the California Attorney General's Office, ended in the computer companies giving the California public schools $1.5 million and remunerating the Merced District Attorney's Office $200,000 in costs.

....... as long as I have been buying computers, I understood 15 inches wasn't 15 inches

ya know the Ford 302 isn't nor is it 5 liters its 301.59 / 4.9

Right. That's what I was saying, that case wasn't about the listed size of monitors referring to the diagonal rather than one of the sides. If it was it would have been a fairly frivolous suit (unless the listed side specified that it referred to one of the sides when it didn't).

That case was about the viewable diagonal not being what was listed as the size. It was settled by various monitor makers because in some cases the actual diagonal measurement - between the bezels - was significantly less than the listed measurement. Monitor makers were, in effect, including the bezel as part of the measurement of the screen size and in doing so misrepresenting the size of the monitor by a couple of inches which makes a big difference in the the area of the (viewable) screen.

 

[pelers]

That's what I say (well, sweet tea). I figure ice is a given.

I've been asked a disturbing number of times if I want ice with my "unsweet tea"

 

[pelers]

I still think my idea of coffee ice cubes is a winner.

I find myself tempted to try this out. Not sure how well it would actually work, though, since coffee tastes differently based on the speed it gets cold. That's why "iced coffee" is different than the "chillers" or whatever they call it. That's why a cup of brewed coffee left sitting for an hour or two isn't anywhere near as yummy as something that was freshly poured over ice.

 

[BlueSunday]

I think what she really means is they put too damn much ice in the drink not that ice takes up some of the cup volume.

I've gotten a sweet tea at mcdonalds and have had one drink out of it before there is no liquid left.

Panara sweet tea is warm(hot brewed right in the container) I fill the cup to the top with Ice and after adding the tea half the ice is gone.Some of the best sweet tea around.