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(Salt Lake City-AP) -- The Utah attorney general says refund checks are coming for people in Utah who filed claims to be part of a settlement involving overpricing by big music companies.
The settlement, which still must be approved in May by a federal judge, will bring a total of about 362-thousand dollars to about 29-thousand people in Utah who filed claims before the March 3rd deadline -- that's more than 12 buck apiece.
They are among about three-point-four (M)million consumers who sought relief after the top five U.S. distributors of C-Ds and three large music retailers agreed in September to settle a lawsuit alleging they cheated customers.
If approved, the settlement will end allegations filed by attorneys general representing Utah and other states that C-D distributors conspired with retailers to set minimum music pricing levels, effectively raising the price consumers paid for CDs between 1995 and 2000.
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