A federal appeals court panel has brushed off objections to a settlement between a class of consumers and the maker of Nutella, ruling that an award of about $1 million for plaintiffs’ counsel was proper even though it was double the amount available to allegedly wronged consumers.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on July 16 affirmed the a lower court’s approval of the $1.5 million settlement of Hohenberg v. Ferrero, a class action accusing Ferrero USA Inc. of false advertising by portraying the chocolate-hazelnut spread Nutella as a healthy breakfast option.
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