Carvalho
Carvalho v. HP, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 RODNEY CARVALHO, et al., Case No. 21-cv-08015-PCP
Plaintiffs,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR
v. PRELIMINARY APPROVAL OF
CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT
HP, INC., Re: Dkt. No. 85 Defendant.
BACKGROUND This is a putative class action lawsuit filed by named plaintiffs Rodney Carvalho and Mark Maher against defendant HP, Inc., alleging that HP displayed misleading strikethrough and discounted prices on its website. Plaintiffs allege that they were harmed by HP’s conduct by, among other things, paying more for their products than they would have paid and being induced to make purchases they would not have otherwise made absent the false and misleading prices and discounts. In their operative July 2022 complaint, plaintiffs asserted violations of California’s Consumer Legal Remedies Act, False Advertising Law, and Unfair Competition Law, as well as a claim for unjust enrichment. The parties engaged in substantial discovery…