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April 20th, 2008 at 12:22 am

Update: Diet Coke sweetener class actions

We’ve been critical of would-be class action lawsuits claiming that Coca-Coca violates consumers’ rights by sweetening its fountain version of Diet Coke with a mixture of aspartame and saccharin, rather than aspartame alone as in the supermarket version. Now the Missouri Supreme Court has rejected class-action status for such a lawsuit, reversing a lower court; it “said the classification was overly broad, because it could have covered an indefinite number of people, many of whom did not really care how their Diet Coke was sweetened.” (AP/Kansas City Star, Apr. 15).

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    But I don’t understand. Clearly this practice was indicative of taste infringement!

    Benjamin Kepple on April 20th, 2008

 

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