Judge Won’t Certify Class Alleging ‘Nutritional’ Drinks Were Deceptively Labeled

( October 19, 2026, 12:35 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal magistrate judge issued the public version of a previously sealed ruling denying a plaintiff’s motion to certify a statewide class allegedly deceived into purchasing nutritional drinks based on their health claims in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws, writing that the plaintiff failed to show that her damages model could reliably calculate classwide damages and partly excluding consideration of her damages experts after finding them “unreliable.”...