Surely this back light problem would have come up in testing, court mulls Katyanna Quach Mon 5 Apr 2021 // 19:26 UTC Share Copy A US court has rejected Apple's request to throw out a potential class-action lawsuit accusing the iGiant of knowingly selling MacBook Pro laptops with defective display cables. In an order [PDF] signed last week in San Jose, California, federal district judge Edward Davila essentially said he believed the case, brought by Mahan Taleshpour and others, has legs. The claim is that Apple broke consumer-protection laws by deliberately concealing a design defect that caused the lower portion of screens on its 2016-era MacBook Pro devices to have alternating light and dark patches.