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Entertainment Law Update Episode 160 – August/September 2023
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The regulatory landscape for consumer-packaged goods (CPG) brands is shifting, with artificial food dyes emerging as a central focus of both state and federal scrutiny. Recent actions by the federal and state governments,...more
Native Deodorant False Ad Dismissed As Court Finds Plaintiff's Contradictions Don't Pass the Smell Test - A proposed class action alleging that Native Deodorant falsely advertises its "natural" deodorant as offering...more
Clean Beauty Legal Risks Clean beauty claims have become the current "flavor of the month" for consumer class action lawsuits, particularly in California, New York, Florida, and Texas, where plaintiff's bar activity is...more
While we have previously written on Federal Trade Commission (FTC) enforcement of “Made in America” claims, a recent jury verdict shows that manufacturers should also be wary of potential consumer claims....more
With tariffs creating an atmosphere where “imported” may soon come to mean “expensive,” American businesses might be tempted to use their advertising and packaging to emphasize the American origin of their product, no matter...more
A recent jury decision in Banks et al. v. R.C. Bigelow, Inc., et al., Case No. 2:20-cv-06208, in the Central District of California may serve to embolden more consumer class action filings in the Golden State over domestic...more
Takeaway: It seems that more and more false advertising cases are filed these days alleging that consumer products are contaminated with some sort of harmful substance or chemical. At their core, these types of cases depend...more
Reckitt Benckiser Tastes Sweet Success as Mucinex Honey False Ad Dismissed - Plaintiffs alleging that Reckitt Benckiser falsely advertised certain Mucinex products as containing honey failed to sufficiently allege that the...more
Attend ACI’s 12th Annual Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Forum on Cosmetics and Personal Care Products to stay ahead of the latest environmental and sustainability developments impacting cosmetics and personal care products...more
Welcome to the Class Action & MDL Roundup, our quarterly review of decisions and settlements in the class action arena. In this edition, student-athletes win an NIL round, Canadians in California isn’t personal...more
In a decision issued earlier this year, Mier v. CVS Health, 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 19472 (9th Cir. 2023), the Ninth Circuit held (per our research, for the first time) that class-wide damages models must be based on conjoint...more
Plaintiffs’ bar goes after Ricola for promoting inactive ingredients - Please Ignore This Section if You Are Easily Annoyed - Let’s unpack, for just a moment, one of the most oft-cited television commercials of all...more
Federal Made in U.S.A. Rule - In June 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) adopted its final rule for using “Made in U.S.A.” or any variation of that statement, including the U.S. flag. While this rule imposes no new...more
Welcome to the latest edition of the Food & Beverage Digest, our roundup of court cases and regulations affecting the food, beverage, agribusiness, and cosmetics industries. This month, yellow cellophane rose-tints the...more
Split FTC Moves Ahead with Fines - New Nectar Sleep consent order proves the Commish isn’t down for the count - Perchance to Scheme? Nectar Sleep—the upstart mattress manufacturer and daughter company of Resident Home...more
Welcome to the latest edition of the Food & Beverage Digest, our roundup of court cases and regulations affecting the food, beverage, agribusiness, and cosmetics industries. This month, something something memory...more
Courts are experiencing a recent surge of consumer class action filings alleging that manufacturers are misrepresenting the manner of procurement of materials for their products. These allegations center around claims of...more
Welcome to the latest edition of the Food & Beverage Digest, our roundup of court cases and regulations affecting the food, beverage, agribusiness, and cosmetics industries. This month, someone moved someone’s smoked...more
Welcome to the latest edition of the Food & Beverage Digest, our roundup of court cases and settlements affecting the agribusiness, food, beverage, and cosmetics industry. Here you’ll find information about a podful of...more
Prepare to meet the challenges of the rapidly evolving legal and regulatory landscape of the cosmetics and personal care products industry. A new paradigm is emerging in 2019. Ensure you are prepared to meet the global...more
The use of beauty products is “an understudied source of environmental chemical exposures” with a disparate effect on women of color, George Washington University and Occidental College researchers argue. Ami R. Zota, et al.,...more
In a case decided in December that flew beneath our radar, a judge in the Southern District of California dismissed without prejudice a proposed class action alleging that Citizens for Humanity falsely labeled its jeans as...more
With the 2016 holiday shopping season in full swing, the risk of litigation heightens for retailers. We created our own version of a “holiday list” to identify the top-10 risk areas where retailers may be vulnerable to claims...more
Early this year, Anheuser-Busch settled a class suit filed against it by two Miami residents who alleged that the company was deceptively advertising Kirin beer as imported from Japan, when in fact it is brewed in the United...more
In our continuing efforts to highlight litigation trends that affect consumer product companies, we often focus on class actions brought in California and, especially, its federal Northern District. The Northern District of...more