Nespresso Consumers Can’t Sue Over Warranty’s Brand Requirement

Owners of Nespresso Vertuo coffee machines lack standing to challenge warranties that the consumers say unlawfully required them to use Nespresso-brand capsules, a federal judge said in dismissing a proposed class suit.

Lead plaintiffs Abigail Shaughnessy, Aditya Pathak, and Katherine Alegre suffered no economic injury because their Nespresso Vertuo Coffee Makers didn’t malfunction during the one-year warranty period and they didn’t try to use the warranty, the court said.

The plaintiffs sued in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, saying “tying arrangements” that require a consumer to buy or use an item or service from ...