Legal Opinion
In Re Subway Footlong Sandwich Marketing & Sales Practices Litigation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 25, 2017No. 16-1652PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
In January 2013 an Australian teenager measured his Subway Footlong sandwich and discovered that it was'only 11 inches long. He photographed the sandwich alongside a tape measure and posted the photo on his Facebook page. It went viral. Class-action litigation soon followed. Plaintiffs’ lawyers' across the United States sued Subway for damages and injunctive relief under state consumer-protection laws, seeking class certification under. Rulé 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The suits were combined in a multidistrict litigation in the Eastern District of…
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