( January 20, 2026, 11:14 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A food company and a consumer of its fruit snack products on Jan. 16 filed a joint stipulation of dismissal in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, writing that their appeal involved the same question of law decided by the Ninth Circuit in a separate appeal and that they wish to proceed based upon that ruling’s explanation of how a defendant can defeat remand for lack of equitable jurisdiction in a putative class action....