By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Starbucks was ordered by a federal judge on Monday to face a lawsuit claiming that several of its Refresher ...
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK - Starbucks was ordered by a federal judge on Monday to face a lawsuit claiming that several of its Refresher fruit beverages lacked a key ingredient: fruit. U.SHalifax Urban Folk Festival on both sides of the harbour | SaltWireNEW YORK - Starbucks was ordered by a federal judge on Monday to face a lawsuit claiming that several of its Refresher fruit beverages lacked a key ingredient: fruit.
The plaintiffs Joan Kominis, of Astoria, New York, and Jason McAllister, of Fairfield, California, said the main ingredients were water, grape juice concentrate and sugar, and that Starbucks' misleading names caused them to be overcharged. They said this violated their states' consumer protection laws.
But the judge said that unlike the term"vanilla," the subject of many lawsuits,"nothing before the court indicates that 'mango,' 'passionfruit,' and 'açaí' are terms that typically are understood to represent a flavor without also representing that ingredient."
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