No Class Suit in Bigelow Tea Label Challenge

A California man alleging Bigelow green tea labels deceptively touted the brew’s antioxidant benefits can’t proceed with a class suit, a federal court in California said (Khasin v. R.C. Bigelow, Inc., N.D. Cal., 12-2204, 3/29/16).

Alex Khasin failed to show a classwide method of establishing damages attributable to the allegedly misleading labels, Judge William H. Orrick of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California said March 29.

Without a classwide damages model, he can’t show that common questions predominate over individual ones, a requirement for certification under Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(b)(3), ...