Nathan Vidal

"I'll take that."

Nathan, Nathan Vidal is one of the plaintiffs, said he bought three bags of candy because he, quote, "believed that the product contained a cool-looking carving of a pumpkin's mouth and eyes." But when he opened them all, they were all blank.

He claims-

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They allege they were misled because the Reese's pumpkins they bought don't include the carvings pictured on the packaging.

U.S. District Judge Melissa Damien in Miami ruled that the plaintiffs, Nathan Vidal and Eduardo Granados, lacked legal standing to claim that they overpaid for the candy.

The plaintiffs said they bought the candy for the novelty of its cool and beautiful carved-out designs.

The judge, with a smidgen of skepticism, wrote in her decision, quote, accepting plaintiff's allegations as true, it is clear that their only injury is their subjective disappointment.

And then this lawsuit comes across your desk.

A guy, uh, it's kind of a, there's a bunch of people, but in this one, a customer is suing, uh, Nathan Vidal, Deborah Kennick, Abjul Martin, and Eduardo Granados sued Hershey, the candy company.

Okay.

Because one of them, Vidal, purchased three bags of Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Pumpkins, and on the label, the pumpkin, chocolate pumpkin is carved like a jack-o'-lantern.

The company added the warning anyway.

May twenty twenty-four, four Florida residents, led by a guy named Nathan Vidal, sue Hershey.

Vidal says in twenty twenty-three he bought three bags of Reese's Pumpkins 'cause the bag showed a jack-o'-lantern face, eyes, a mouth carved into the chocolate.

You get the idea.

It was accusing Hershey of misleading consumers with its seasonal candy packaging.

The judge ruled that Florida consumers Nathan Vidal and Eduardo Granados failed to show that they suffered any concrete financial injury.

Okay.

So Vidal and Granados claimed that they paid more for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups because they expected the candies to have the decorative faces that were shown on the packaging.

You get a smooth, featureless blob of chocolate-covered peanut butter.

Which, you know, prompted two plaintiffs, Nathan Vidal and Eduardo Granados, to actually sue the Hershey Company under Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.

Wait, they actually sued over the missing face?

Yeah, they didn't just get annoyed and post on TikTok.