Consumer Protection
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A California judge has tossed a proposed class action brought by a Kellogg’s customer, saying the customer failed to adequately back up claims that the snack maker tricked granola bar buyers into thinking the company’s Bear Naked Granola V’nilla Almond bar is flavored only with real vanilla beans… Read this piece in its entirety at
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A Massachusetts woman has accused Google and parent company Alphabet Inc. of advertising a Pine-Sol cleaning product with false claims about its germ-killing abilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday in Boston federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The CA Smoke and Vape Association filed a lawsuit Sunday in Los Angeles federal court seeking to nix a ban on flavored electronic cigarette products put in place by Palmdale, California, just weeks after the trade group filed a similar suit against Los Angeles County… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara has launched a proposed class action against Zoom Video Communications Inc., accusing the burgeoning company of allowing a 400-person video conference to be “Zoombombed” with child porn… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Western Digital Corp. has been hit with a proposed class action in California federal court accusing the data storage giant of surreptitiously changing the design of a popular hard drive product in a way that made the devices “completely worthless”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 