Miscellaneous

Thread-count class action

By Walter Olson, Ted Frank, and David Nieporent

The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" has a look at that class action against Bed Bath & Beyond over misleading bedding thread counts which resulted in "a series of refunds and discount certificates" to consumers -- coupons from Bed Bath & Beyond, imagine that! -- $2,500 for the named client, and up to $290,000 for the plaintiff's counsel, led by Edith M. Kallas (formerly of Milberg Weiss), the whole contretemps summed up as a "dry goods Enron". (Lauren Collins, "Splitting Threads", Jan. 28). See also Michael Krauss at PoL; and Peter Lattman got to it first.

Full post as published by Overlawyered on February 03, 2008 (boomark / email).