San Francisco, CA: A
defective products class action lawsuit has been filed against Apple alleging that the MacBook Pro LG retina display screens suffer from brightness, color and image display flaws, including the display of faint or "ghost"images after a picture is no longer on the screen.
In the lawsuit, entitled Hodges v. Apple Inc., Case No. 13-cv-01128, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, plaintiff Beau Hodges who filed the class action, claims he bought his MacBook Pro for $2,100 in 2012 and one month later he began experiencing screen image retention issues. Hodges says a faint picture - or ghost image - of a previously displayed image would sometimes linger on his screen for several minutes. The complaint also states that other MacBook users with LG screens have reported that these ghostly images are permanently burned on the screen.
The defective products lawsuit alleges that the LG screens fail to live up to Apple' marketing claims, specifically that the MacBook' retina display screens are the best on the market. Further, the lawsuit claims that consumers have no way of knowing prior to purchasing a MacBook Pro whether the computer has a defective LG display panel or an unaffected screen made by Samsung.
The lawsuit states that Apple must have known about the differences between the two manufacturers screens "because it spent a considerable amount of time testing the products during research and development and has been inundated with complaints from customers about the LG screen's problems." However, Apple has failed to notify consumers about the defects.
The lawsuit is seeking damages for a proposed class of all MacBook Pro customers who received an LG-manufactured retina display screen.
