Voluntary Dismissal Conditionally Granted In Underfill Class Suit

(September 4, 2024, 8:45 AM EDT) -- SAN DIEGO — In a second pass at the motion following remand by the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, a federal judge in California conditionally granted voluntary dismissal without prejudice sought by consumers in their putative class complaint alleging underfill of lower calorie ice cream but instructed that the consumers must pay the ice cream company and its CEO more than half of the attorney fees they requested and refile any new case related to the same issues in the same district court and that the case must be assigned to the same judge....