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==== ''Orin Safier v. Western Digital Corporation'' ====
On 7 July 2005, an action entitled ''Orin Safier v. [[Western Digital]] Corporation, et al.'' was filed in the Superior Court for the City and County of San Francisco, Case No. CGC-05-442812. The case was subsequently moved to the Northern District of California, Case No. 05-03353 BZ.<ref name="gutr2006" />

Although Western Digital maintained that their usage of units is consistent with "the indisputably correct industry standard for measuring and describing storage capacity", and that they "cannot be expected to reform the software industry", they agreed to settle in March 2006 with 14 June 2006 as the Final Approval hearing date.<ref name="zimm2006" />

Western Digital offered to compensate customers with a [[Gratis versus libre#Gratis|gratis]] download of backup and recovery software that they valued at US$30. They also paid {{val|p=$|500000}} in fees and expenses to San Francisco lawyers Adam Gutride and Seth Safier, who filed the suit. The settlement called for Western Digital to add a disclaimer to their later packaging and advertising.<ref name="betaxxxx" /><ref name="reim2006" /><ref name="wdc2010" />
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Western Digital had this footnote in their settlement. "Apparently, Plaintiff believes that he could sue an egg company for fraud for labeling a carton of 12 eggs a 'dozen', because some bakers would view a 'dozen' as including 13 items."<ref name="bask2006" />