Barnett v. The Kroger Company

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO WESTERN DIVISION TASHEBA BARNETT, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 1:22-cv-544 v. JUDGE DOUGLAS R. COLE THE KROGER COMPANY, et al., Defendants. OPINION AND ORDER Plaintiffs Tasheba Barnett, Adele Hoffman, and Chadaela Lovincey allege that two grocery stores, The Kroger Co. and Fred Meyer, Inc. (the Grocery Stores), sold rice-rusk teething wafers that contained elevated levels of toxic metals. Plaintiffs regularly purchased these snacks for their young children but maintain that they would not have done so had they known the wafers contained…