Enjoy your tiny payout: The weird world of tech class action lawsuits

Eating a healthy breakfast can help your children pay attention in school, but that doesn’t mean eating Frosted Mini-Wheats makes them smarter — or so a judge decided in a class action lawsuit brought by parents enraged over false advertising. The plaintiffs got $15 apiece, the lawyers got millions, and Kellogg’s got a lesson. But weird class-action lawsuits aren’t just for breakfast; the tech world is littered with them, and the strange incentives and rewards they produce make for fun and bizarre side notes in our industry. Take a trip with us through the halls of class-action tech justice.

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