{"id":119906,"date":"2009-12-31T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091230\/1151207552.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-31T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T15:50:00","slug":"court-dumps-class-action-lawsuit-saying-apple-ipod-responsible-for-hearing-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/119906","title":{"rendered":"Court Dumps Class Action Lawsuit Saying Apple iPod Responsible For Hearing Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, someone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20060201\/1759252.shtml\">sued Apple<\/a>, claiming that the iPod caused hearing loss, saying that the devices have an &#8220;inherently defective design&#8221; and that they need more warnings that you can acquire hearing loss if high volumes are used.  The lawsuit eventually turned into a class action, which a district court dismissed.  Now an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE5BT3HJ20091230?type=technologyNews%3FfeedType%3DRSS&#038;feedName=technologyNews&#038;utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20reuters%2FtechnologyNews%20%28News%20%2F%20US%20%2F%20Technology%29\" >appeals court has agreed<\/a>, saying that the plaintiffs showed no evidence that an iPod &#8220;poses an unreasonable risk of noise-induced hearing loss.&#8221;  Basically, the argument amounted to &#8220;you know, Apple <i>could<\/i> make iPods that are less likely to lead to hearing loss.&#8221;  But that&#8217;s not legally actionable, and it&#8217;s good that the courts were quick to point that out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091230\/1151207552.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091230\/1151207552.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091230\/1151207552&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=d6d84229d1137bd489beef405a4a8e5a&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=d6d84229d1137bd489beef405a4a8e5a&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=1yz1ChdxnNM:Og73grBRpTM:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=1yz1ChdxnNM:Og73grBRpTM:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=1yz1ChdxnNM:Og73grBRpTM:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/1yz1ChdxnNM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, someone sued Apple, claiming that the iPod caused hearing loss, saying that the devices have an &#8220;inherently defective design&#8221; and that they need more warnings that you can acquire hearing loss if high volumes are used. The lawsuit eventually turned into a class action, which a district court dismissed. Now an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}