By admin | July 31, 2008 - 6:37 pm
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A federal judge in Atlanta has refused to allow multidistrict litigation arising from salmonella-tainted peanut butter to proceed as a class action. Certifying hundreds of product liability cases as a class action against ConAgra — the producer of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter — would make little sense because doing so in these cases would neither clear the courts of thousands of …