Sleepy’s Defeats Bid for Class Status in Mattress Refund Suit

Sleepy’s LLC, now Mattress Firm Inc., defeated a bid for class certification in a lawsuit over the company’s alleged failure to provide refunds on non-conforming products.

The US District Court for the District of New Jersey said in an unpublished Tuesday decision that the plaintiff failed to show the would-be class was large enough.

Plaintiff Jeffrey Gundell identified 1,537,886 transactions that fell within his proposed class definition. But he offered no basis for determining how many of those transactions included disputed contract language or involved customers who were denied refunds or deterred from asserting their rights, Judge Zahid N. ...