FasciaBlaster Creator Mostly Escapes Consumer-Fraud Lawsuit

Buyers of a weight-loss and cellulite-eliminating gizmo can’t pursue their consumer-fraud and breach of warranty class action against its creator Ashley Black and her companies, a federal appeals court ruled.

The plaintiffs’ class allegations failed because they were unable to show that common issues in the lawsuit predominated over individual issues of proof, Judge Edith H. Jones of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said Thursday.

Emily Elson, Stacy Haavisto, Loretta Oakes, and the other plaintiffs claimed in the lawsuit that Black and her companies made fraudulent marketing representations about the FasciaBlaster, a two-foot stick with hard ...