August 01, 2018
A New York federal judge on Wednesday axed a proposed class action alleging that Tootsie Roll Industries LLC fills its boxes of Junior Mints with too much air, saying the boxes contain enough information for consumers to figure out how much candy they contain and that the court wouldn't "enshrine into the law an embarrassing level of mathematical illiteracy."
March 26, 2018
Consumers accusing Tootsie Roll Industries LLC of underfilling boxes of Junior Mints urged a New York federal court Monday to keep the proposed class action alive, arguing the question of whether the empty space is necessary should be answered at a later date.
October 04, 2017
Tootsie Roll Industries' Junior Mints candies are packaged with too much empty space — almost twice as much as Hershey's comparably sized Milk Duds — a proposed class of consumers told a New York federal court on Tuesday, claiming they paid for more candy than they actually received.