“Allowing a suit of this type to proceed on this basis would basically open the door to enabling any purchaser of any consumable product to file a lawsuit simply saying, ‘I bought product X, and it contains microplastics’ … and thereby get a past a motion to dismiss and into discovery and class certification proceedings,” wrote U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly.
‘More Than One Cause’ in Ford Transmission Action Sinks Class Certification, Fed. Judge Rules
A federal judge in Chicago looked in part to a