POM Wonderful LLC scored a rare win on Tuesday in its battle over health claims tied to its pomegranate juice after a federal judge decertified a nationwide class of consumers.
U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson in Los Angeles found that the two damages models on which the plaintiffs relied failed to support a class action. Giving full refunds would ignore any other benefits that consumers may have gotten from drinking POM’s juice, he wrote. A second theory, based on the allegedly inflated price consumers paid for POM’s juice, failed to explain how the company’s health claims caused any damages, he added.
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