Linda Suchanek v. Sturm Foods, Incorporated

How courts have described this case

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• holding that packaging that implied a comparison between coffee pods and Keurig K- Cups could be misleading as the former was mostly instant coffee
• holding that “a supposed rule that individual issues necessarily predominate in cases requiring individual subjective inquiries into causality ... was an error of law”
• holding that the need for individualized proof is routine in class actions and does not preclude class certification
• holding that packaging that implied a comparison between coffee pods and Keurig K- Cups could be misleading as the former was mostly instant coffee
• holding that the question of whether a “reasonable consumer” would likely be deceived was common to all members of a proposed class that included Alabama consumers suing under state consumer protection law
• holding that it was an “error of law” to conclude that the individual question of causation, “as required to establish liability” in a consumer action, predominated

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