Bower v. International Business MacHines, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “a consumer class action is authorized only when the alleged act or practice was declared to be deceptive or unconscionable prior to the transaction on which the claim is based”
• interpreting consumers to fall within the definition of “persons” under the ODTPA
• “Plaintiffs claim that IBM has benefitted from their purchase of the Deskstars, but nowhere have they alleged that they purchased the Deskstars directly from IBM. Absent such an allegation, their Complaint is fatally indefinite.”
• “Plaintiffs claim that IBM has benefitted from their purchase of the Deskstars, but nowhere have they alleged that they purchased the Deskstars directly from IBM. Absent such an allegation, their Complaint is fatally indefinite.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).