ADA Class Actions
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If at first you don’t succeed. . . alternative milk litigation again.
On November 5, 2024 Judge Jon S. Tigar dismissed the claims in Munoz v Peet’s Coffee, Inc., Case No. 24-cv-01764 in the Northern District of California. I’ve blogged about these cases recently¹ so I won’t go into detail. As might be expected, the plaintiff lost. The reasons were simple. The plaintiff’s first claim was the addition… Continue reading
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Lactose intolerance, milk allergies and the ADA
I always think of donuts when I hear Dunkin Donuts, but of course now it is just “Dunkin” and coffee is at the top of their product line. Hence the coffee cup to the left, because we are back to alternative milk products and the ADA. The last time I blogged about this subject was… Continue reading
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Starbucks again – Lactose intolerance, alternative milk and the ADA
Back in 2022 a plaintiffs’ firm filed a national class action in Florida against Starbucks claiming that it discriminated against those with lactose intolerance by charging extra from non-dairy milk alternatives. The case progressed in fits and starts, as most such cases do, until February 27 of this year, when the Court gave the plaintiffs… Continue reading
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Quick Hits – almost Bastille Day edition
Serial litigators file lots of cases and that means lots of decisions, sometimes coming in batches. I’ve omitted a few decisions that say nothing more than the cases I have reviewed just to keep this blog manageable. If there is a theme, it is simply that despite very clear trends toward limiting serial litigation by… Continue reading
