Procter & Gamble Beats Laundry Detergent Load Capacity Suit

A proposed class action alleging The Procter & Gamble Co. uses misleading labeling on its laundry detergent was brought to a halt after a district court ruled the suit failed to state a valid claim.

Tasha Callahan failed to satisfy the requirements of federal Rule 12(b)(6) when she alleged P&G violated various state-wide fraud statutes for its laundry detergent label purporting to contain 32 loads per container. Judge Jeremy C. Daniel with the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said Callahan didn’t offer any reasonable inferences to support her claims that a reasonable consumer would be misled ...