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Anyone know what this means for non-US residents? We're in Canada and my partners 12" Macbook keyboard has failed 3 times, requiring the complete replacement of her Macbook once and the whole top-case twice. Which caused plenty of downtime for repairs, usually weeks at a time. Now she's experiencing small problems for the 4th time.

Maybe if it succeeds someone can create a class-action in Canadian courts...



Can you even use court cases from a different country as precedent?


My spouse who's a Canadian lawyer said a number of Canadian laws have referenced American (and historically more importantly British) law as examples during proceedings but they can't be cited directly as precedent case-law.

It's just a helpful data point when establishing new laws and assisting judges to form their legal opinions in cases without existing examples within Canadian law... and I'd assume also inspire Canadian lawyers to form their own class actions when they've already been tested in American courts.

I was just curious if foreign parties could play any role in American ones, which I doubt is the case.




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