A federal judge in California said a lawsuit by hundreds of thousands of parents nationwide against Facebook could go forward as a class action. The suit contends that Facebook let kids use their parents’ credit and debit cards to buy the virtual currency Facebook credits and violated California law by citing its “all sales are final” policy in refusing refunds to parents who complained.
Facebook denies all charges. The ruling simply means that the parents can sue collectively as a class. They still have to prove their claims are substantively true when the case goes to trial in October.