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4:20-cv-02777
California Northern
Prop. Damage Prod. Liability
Class Action
Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers
A California federal judge has signed off on a class of consumers who were allegedly misled by Unilever's marketing into thinking Breyers' Natural Vanilla flavor contained only natural vanilla, after a previous denial.
A California federal judge denied certification to a proposed class of consumers who were allegedly misled by Unilever's marketing into thinking Breyers' Natural Vanilla flavor contained only natural vanilla, ruling Wednesday that the suit's central questions have not been shown to be resolvable with proof common to all proposed members.
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A Breyers ice cream consumer asked a California federal judge to certify a class of thousands of consumers who, she says, were misled by Unilever's marketing into thinking Breyers' Natural Vanilla flavor contained natural vanilla, arguing that her suit is a "textbook case" for certification.
Unilever can't escape allegations that its advertising and marketing of Breyers Natural Vanilla Ice Cream misled consumers into thinking the ice cream contained natural vanilla flavors despite laboratory tests showing it was flavored with things other than vanilla, a California federal judge has ruled.