Half full or half empty? KFC bucket lawsuit dismissed over insufficient facts

A New York woman's $20 million false advertising lawsuit against KFC has been dismissed, the Poughkeepsie Journal reported Thursday.

Anna Wurtzburger of Hopewell Junction, New York, filed her civil suit in October 2016, alleging the fast food chicken chain showed “a bucket overflowing with chicken” in television advertisements, but sold her “fill up” buckets of chicken in 2016 that were not filled to the brim as shown on her screen at home, the paper reported.

When Ms. Wurtzburger “received the bucket of chicken there were only eight pieces of chicken in it,” according to her legal complaint, accessed by the newspaper. “There was not enough chicken in the bucket to fill up the bucket... (the ads) falsely stated that ‘the meal could feed your whole family.’” 

KFC moved to dismiss complaint over insufficient facts, a motion that was granted Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, according to the paper.