A federal judge in Newark has denied challenges from plaintiffs’ and defense attorneys to expert witnesses who are offering opinion evidence on methods to verify individual claims and calculate damages in claims over alleged mislabeling of orange juice.

In the 5-year-old multidistrict litigation claiming Tropicana misled customers with the slogan “100 percent pure and natural” on its label, plaintiffs’ experts offered novel theories on how to determine whether each claimant actually purchased the product and how much they were damaged by the company’s alleged practices of adding natural flavoring to the juice and storing it for up to one year before selling it.

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