UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA

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MARCIA SORIN, individually and on

behalf of all others similarly situated,

Plaintiff,

vs.

THE FOLGER COFFEE COMPANY, a 

subsidiary of the J. M. SMUCKER 

COMPANY,

Defendant.

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NOTICE OF SUPPLEMENTAL AUTHORITY

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff Marcia Sorin (“Plaintiff”) submits this Notice of 

Supplemental Authority in connection with Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss. On December 16, 

2020, Judge Jesus G. Bernal in the Central District of California issued an Order denying for the 

most part and granting in part a motion to dismiss in Ashton v. The J.M. Smucker Co., et al., 

EDCV20-992-JGB (SHKx) (“Ashton”). A copy of the Order is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

Like this case, Ashton was brought as a proposed class action against The Folger Coffee 

Company alleging that Folgers’ Coffee labels – the same labels at issue in this case –

misrepresented to consumers the actual number of servings the products were able to provide. In 

Ashton, plaintiffs pled claims for, inter alia, consumer fraud violations under California’s 

Consumers Legal Remedies Act (“CLRA”), Cal. Civ. Code § 1750, et seq. and Unfair Competition 

Law (“UCL”), Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200, et seq., as well as New York’s N.Y. Gen. Bus. 

Law § 349 and § 350. The district court found plaintiffs had standing to bring their consumer 

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fraud claims as to both the Folgers’ products they personally purchased, as well as “substantially 

similar products” that they did not purchase. Ashton, at 8-9. The court also found that plaintiffs 

had standing to seek injunctive relief as they had sufficiently alleged a threat of future harm. Id. 

at 9. In addition, the court found plaintiffs sufficiently alleged their consumer fraud claims based 

on nearly identical facts as are alleged here regarding the misleading and deceptive nature of the 

Folgers coffee labels. Id. at 11-14. And, California’s and New York’s consumer fraud statutes 

are analyzed similarly to the FDUTPA claims Plaintiff Sorin alleges here. See, e.g., Woolley v. 

Ygrene Energy Fund, Inc., No. 17-cv-01258-LB, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 94518, at *25 n.91 (N.D. 

Cal. May 28, 2020).

Dated: December 18, 2020 KOMLOSSY LAW P.A.

/s/ Emily C. Komlossy

Emily Komlossy (FBN 7714)

eck@komlossylaw.com

4700 Sheridan St., Suite J

Hollywood, FL 33021

Phone: (954) 842-2021

Fax: (954) 416-6223

Attorneys for Plaintiff and the Proposed 

Class

OF COUNSEL:

Laurence D. Paskowitz

THE PASKOWITZ LAW FIRM P.C.

208 East 51st Street, Suite 380

New York, NY 10022

212-685-0969

lpaskowitz@pasklaw.com

Roy L. Jacobs

ROY JACOBS & ASSOCIATES

420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 2440

New York, NY 10170

212-867-1156

rjacobs@jacobsclasslaw.com

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Beth A. Keller

LAW OFFICES OF BETH A. KELLER, P.C.

118 North Bedford Road

Suite 100

Mount Kisco, NY 10549

914-752-3040

bkeller@keller-lawfirm.com

BONNETT, FAIRBOURN, FRIEDMAN & BALINT, PC

Elaine A. Ryan

eryan@bffb.com

2325 E. Camelback Road

Suite 300

Phoenix, AZ 85016

(602) 274-1100

-andPatricia N. Syverson

psyverson@bffb.com

600 West Broadway

Suite 900

San Diego, CA 92101

(619) 798-4593

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that on this 18th day of December, 2020, I electronically filed the foregoing 

document with the Clerk of the Court using CM/ECF, which will deliver the document to all 

counsel of record as follows:

Ronald Y. Rothstein 

Sean Suber 

WINSTON & STRAWN LLP

35 W. Wacker Drive

Chicago, IL 60601

Telephone: (312) 558-5600

Facsimile: (312) 558-5700

rrothste@winston.com

ssuber@winston.com

Megan L. Whipp

WINSTON & STRAWN LLP

333 S. Grand Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90071-1543

Telephone: (213) 615-1700

Facsimile: (213) 615-1750

mwhipp@winston.com 

Christina Calvar (FL Bar No. 114201)

WINSTON & STRAWN LLP

200 Park Avenue

New York, NY 10166-4193

Telephone: (212) 294-5331

Facsimile: (212) 294-4700

ccalvar@winston.com

Attorneys for Defendant 

THE FOLGERS COFFEE COMPANY 

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/s/ Emily C. Komlossy

Emily Komlossy (FBN 7714)

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