High court won't hear appeal of gigabyte dispute arising in St. Clair County suit against Walgreens | Madison
Sudzus SPRINGFIELD – Supreme Court Justices decided not to review rejection of a claim that a gigabyte equals 1,024 megabytes rather than 1,000. On Jan. 27, they denied leave to appeal an appellate court ruling that Walgreens properly advertised 1,000 megabytes of flash drive capacity as one gigabyte. Plaintiff Brian O’Keefe sued Walgreens in St. Clair County circuit court in March 2019, claiming its flash drive packages violated Illinois consumer fraud law. “All defendant does is place an asterisk on the number of GBs advertised and extremely fine prin...
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