Consumer Class Certified After Experts Allowed In Ginger Ale ‘Real Ginger’ Case

Mealey's (June 28, 2018, 1:58 PM EDT) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — A California magistrate judge on June 26 declined to exclude expert polling and damages testimony in a class action accusing the maker of Canada Dry ginger ale of defrauding California consumers by selling the soda with the phrase “Made From Real Ginger” on its packaging, even though the soda does not contain any ginger root (Jackie Fitzhenry-Russell, et al. v. Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Inc., et al., No. 17-cv-00564, N.D. Calif., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106918)....