Dell has been ordered back to court to face charges that it knowingly sold defective laptops.

A panel of the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reversed a federal district court's 2008 dismissal of the case against Dell. That dismissal followed the plaintiffs' refusal to comply with a district court order that their claims be arbitrated.

In their lawsuit, the plaintiffs alleged that Dell violated California consumer laws by selling Inspiron notebooks that had inadequate cooling systems, power supplies and motherboards.

They said the defects caused their notebooks to shut down without warning, fail to boot up, or deteriorate too quickly. The notebooks were bought between July 2004 and January 2005. It is not clear how many customers were affected.

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Source: PC Pro News