Court Ruling Allows Consumer Case to Proceed Against Cell Phone Manufacturers

On January 10, 2011, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in Dahlgren v. Audiovox, et al., No. 2002 CA 007884B, issued an opinion, upholding consumer claims under the D.C. Consumer Protection Procedures Act that cell phone manufacturers failed to disclose and misrepresented a variety of material information about their cell phones – including information about how to reduce exposure to potentially harmful radiofrequency waves, which cell phone accessories should be avoided and why, the potential for increased exposure to children using cell phones and that the cell phone manufacturers themselves (rather than the FCC) test and certify their cell phones. Plaintiff Dahlgren has also brought these claims on behalf of the General Public of the District of Columbia against these manufacturers as a private attorney general.

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