Post Foods Wants Separate Brand Trials in Sugary Cereal Suit

Post Foods LLC asked a federal court in California for separate trials for each cereal brand subclass in a consumer suit alleging it deceptively markets high-sugar cereals as healthful.

Separate trials are needed to ease the jurors’ task of evaluating numerous labels, and to avoid prejudice to Post from overlapping evidence that’s not relevant for all brands, the company said in a filing Oct. 16 to Judge William H. Orrick of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Debbie Krommenhock and Stephen Hadley challenged numerous statements on multiple cereal varieties that used words like “wholesome” and “nutritious” ...