Quote from: DGulari on October 14, 2014, 12:35:06 AM

Quote from: mwizard on October 13, 2014, 09:03:05 PM

I doubt it is possible to effectively take a class action in California against a Swedish company unless the defendants has a legal presence in California or the US.

I would have thought KNC would only worry about actions brought under Swedish law.

This is completely absurd. Many thousands of European companies have been sued in the Federal Courts of California. Happens all the time. If you sell products to Americans, you 'avail yourself' of the laws and courts jurisdiction. US consumer laws protect US citizens. You can sell defective dangerous products to Americans and avoid consumer protection laws. Otherwise, dodgy companies would all just go set up operations is some shit bag country and sell dangerous products competing with companies who sell well designed product in conformance with the laws.

Why oh why do people believe that Swedish companies are allowed to sell dangerous products to American citizens without having to answer to laws in the US. That is very funny.

The problem with a class action has nothing to do with KNC being a European company.

The issue is that KNC have no US office or presence in the US. Normally class actions are against the US operation of the European company or a distributor. In the case of KNC there is no US branch or office or distributor.