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Consumer Class Action/Mass Tort Defense

Baker McKenzie partners Teresa H. Michaud and Erin McCloskey Maus have stepped in to defend Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC in a consumer class action over the company’s PlayStation 5 gaming console. The case, filed July 12 in Illinois Northern District Court by McGuire Law, claims that the consoles have a defect that causes them to power down without warning while games are in play. Michaud, who is based in Los Angeles, leads Baker McKenzie’s interactive entertainment group and is co-chair of the firm’s North America class action practice. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Steven C. Seeger, is 1:22-cv-03603, Trejo v. Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC. >> Read the filing on Law.com Radar