DirecTV Reaches Settlement in EFTA Suit

DirecTV and an Arizona customer suing it for supposed Electronic Fund Transfer Act violations settled. In a filing Friday in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, plaintiff Rosario Torres said all claims in her putative class action were settled. Torres sued DirecTV in January after signing up for the direct broadcast satellite service and having several months of bills being taken out of her bank account when she said she never authorized it to make such electronic fund transfers and that her signature authorized only the first month's payment. The filing didn't give terms of the settlement. AT&T now owns DirecTV.