San Miguel v. HP Inc.

EDWARD J. DAVILA, United States District Judge

I. INTRODUCTION

This putative nation-wide class action suit arises out of Defendant HP Inc.'s ("HP") allegedly unlawful implementation of a firmware update that incapacitated thousands of HP printers and all-in-one devices (collectively "HP printers") and prevented the use of certain third-party ink cartridges in those printers. Plaintiffs Richard San Miguel, DeLores Lawty, Richard Faust, Christopher Ware and James Andrew ("Plaintiffs")1 allege that HP used the firmware in an attempt to gain an advantage over its competitors and to extract higher…