Those who follow new media litigation really closely may recognize the name Samuel Lassoff.  Back in 2006, Lassoff named Google, Yahoo!, and IAC Interactive Corporation in a class action suit, alleging that “defendants engaged in a scheme to hide its negligent handling of plaintiff's advertising account and never warned plaintiffs of fraudulent clicks or made any recovery efforts for the plaintiffs.”  I have no clue what that means, but that suit was eventually thrown out, but Lassoff is back, this time suing Microsoft for "incomplete and/or partial downloads of digital goods and services and refused refund of same."  Basically, the Philadelphia-based lawyer paid Microsoft points for some DLC, then had trouble downloading it, but was still charged, stating that "an invoice he received early this month from Microsoft included charges for purchases he couldn't complete due to a balky download system."  I don’t know what “balky” means, but it doesn’t sound like a good thing.

The suit is another class action suit, with Lassoff seeking a "full refund to all US consumers of all Microsoft Points fraudulently charged to consumers for incomplete or partial downloads of purchased digital goods and services."  All attempts to reach Mr. Lassoff by phone have been met with disconnected numbers and offices who claim he does not work there, but we will continue to try to get in touch with him to discuss this matter.  I have some questions…

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