Pennsylvania-based The Hershey Company is facing a lawsuit seeking $5 million in damages over the wrappers on Reese's peanut butter candies.

HERSHEY, Pa. (CBS) – A Florida woman is upset about the lack of designs on Reese’s holiday-themed peanut butter candy - and now she’s taking parent company Hershey to court over it.

Cynthia Kelly filed a federal class-action lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Florida, alleging several Reese’s products don’t match their photos as depicted on the wrappers.

For example, Reese’s peanut butter pumpkins are merely pumpkin-shaped hunks of peanut-butter-stuffed chocolate, and the actual product has no Jack O’lantern-style carvings as the wrapper depicts, Kelly alleges.

  • @bostonbananarama
    35•11 months ago

    This was filed as a class action, with the class being all Floridians that purchased these. If you’re at all familiar with class action lawsuits, they hugely benefit the lawyers, minimally benefit the named plaintiff, and barely provide anything to the class at large.

    So an attorney may take it, assuming the believe they can get the class certified. I don’t do that type of work, so I don’t know too much about it.

    Also, contingency cases are possible against large companies based on nuisance value, essentially it’s cheaper to pay you $15k to go away then to litigate for a large company.

    • Captain Aggravated
      11•11 months ago

      I think I’ve been among the “winners” of three, maybe four class action lawsuits. I think I’m up something like $17.

    • @WoahWoah
      0•11 months ago

      Interesting. Thanks for the information.

      Actually, now that I think about it, these chocolates ARE frustrating me… 🤣