A consumer’s grievance that his laptop lacked battery life must be settled in arbitration, and not through a proposed class-action suit, because he clicked the “accept” button on the terms and conditions page generated by his new Dell computer, a federal judge has ruled.

Western District Judge Charles Siragusa determined that Dell computer purchaser Charles Andersen was forewarned by the packaging in which his Dell 15-5000 came that there were legal ramifications to his starting the computer.

Judge Siragusa

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