Costco, P&G Get New Look at Class Status in Flushable Wipes Case

Costco, Kimberly-Clark, and Procter & Gamble convinced a federal appeals court that a consumer suit challenging “flushable” wipes should go back to a trial court for another look at whether plaintiffs can show classwide harm.

More information is needed to address the companies’ argument that the classes shouldn’t have been certified, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said May 14 in a non-precedential order.

Plaintiffs allege they paid a premium price because of false representations that the wipes, which clogged home plumbing systems, were “flushable.”

In March 2017, Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court ...