( September 12, 2024, 12:06 PM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — A split Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Sept. 11 reversed the dismissal of a putative class action against a hand sanitizer maker that advertises its products as capable of killing “99.99% of germs,” with the majority finding that the plaintiff adequately raised an “alternative theory” that the defendant misrepresented the effectiveness of its products under “real-world conditions” in which consumers’ hands may be dirty, greasy or wet....