An opinion from Ninth Circuit Judge Kenneth Lee has been making the rounds on Twitter and the legal blogs, more for the plethora of pop culture reference it contains than for the finer points of its holdings on class action settlement law.

Here’s what’s important to the parties: The decision zaps a settlement ConAgra Foods Inc. reached with a class of consumers that claimed it used a misleading “100% Natural” label on Wesson Oil. The decision sends the case back to the district court for further proceedings.

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