RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Folgers coffee has miscalculated how many cups can be made from one of its cans, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
The case was filed by plaintiffs Shelly Ashton and Jay Schoener on May 8 in Riverside, Calif., federal court against J.M. Smucker Co., through lawyers at Faruqi & Faruqi and The Wand Law Firm in California.
The plaintiffs live in California and New York, allowing the firm to make claims under each state’s consumer protection laws.
When the packaging makes claims like “MAKES UP TO 240 6 FL OZ CUPS,” it is lying, the lawsuit claims. It goes through the math of one tablespoon for one serving equating to 1,200 grams of ground coffee needed to make 240 servings. But the net weight of that particular size can is 865 grams, the suit says.
Had Plaintiffs and other consumers known the truth (i.e., that the Folgers ground coffee products do not contain enough coffee to make the specified number of servings), they would have paid less for them, or would not have purchased them at all,” the lawsuit says.
“As a result, Plaintiffs and other consumers have been deceived and have suffered economic injury.”
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California case number 5:20-cv-00992