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Starbucks can put as much ice in your coffee as it wants

Starbucks can put as much ice in your coffee as it wants. CHRIS HONDROS/GETTY IMAGES/FILE

Starbucks can put as much ice in your coffee as it wants.

A federal judge in California shut down a class-action lawsuit alleging the coffee giant misleads its customers by adding too much ice to its cold drinks.

“As young children learn, they can increase the amount of beverage they receive if they order ‘no ice,’” Judge Percy Anderson wrote Friday in a court document dismissing the suit.

The judge concluded that because the cups Starbucks uses for cold drinks are clear, it’s easy to see that the drink contains a combination of liquid and ice.

“No reasonable consumer could be confused by this,” Anderson wrote.

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But Starbucks isn’t out of the woods just yet. That’s because Alexander Forouzesh, who filed the lawsuit, isn’t the only customer griping about the amount of ice in the company’s drinks. A separate lawsuit, filed in Illinois, is continuing to make its way through federal court.

The California suit sought to represent every California Starbucks customer who bought a cold drink since April 2006.


Christina Prignano can be reached at christina.prignano@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @cprignano.