Fraud, UCL Claims Over Apple Device Processors Performance Speed Again Dismissed

(June 14, 2022, 5:06 PM EDT) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — For the third time in less than four years, a California federal judge on June 8 dismissed putative class claims under California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and federal and state fraud statutes over the purported processor speed slowdown for certain of Apple Inc.’s devices, finding that the plaintiffs did not establish the necessary elements to show any fraudulent conduct in the defendant’s efforts to mitigate a security vulnerability, which led to the slowdown....