Consumers Ask For Cert. In Suit Over Nest Lab Thermostat

By Emily Field

Law360, New York (January 25, 2016, 6:21 PM ET) -- A group of consumers who say Google Inc. unit Nest Lab’s energy-saving, light-up thermostats don’t lower their utility bills as much as they claim asked a California federal judge on Friday to certify their class, saying there’s common evidence establishing that the company made false representations about energy savings.

Nest user Justin Darisse asked U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman to certify a national class of people who bought first- or second-generation Nest thermostats from November 2011 to February 2015, in a heavily redacted motion for...