Footlong sandwich is not a foot long
- Year: 2016
- Result: Case was thrown out of court
It all started in 2013, when a teenager decided to measure his supposedly footlong Subway sandwich. His meal turned out to be only 11 inches long, an inch too short. Fast forward three years, and the company was settling a class-action lawsuit in court, promising to make its rolls 12 inches.
Of course, the only people to benefit from the lawsuit were the attorneys, who were about to receive $520,000 in fees. The judge agreed with activist and legal writer Theodore Frank that this was not fair and dismissed the settlement and the entire case.
