Consumer Protection
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Ghirardelli Chocolate Co. on Wednesday escaped a lawsuit claiming the sweets maker tricked consumers into thinking its cocoa-free white baking chips actually contained chocolate, with a California federal judge saying reasonable consumers wouldn’t have been bamboozled by the product’s packaging… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Germ-X can’t protect against the coronavirus, but the company that makes the popular hand sanitizer has falsely claimed that it can fight off the headline-grabbing pathogen and certain other disease-causing germs, according to a proposed class action in California federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A New York federal judge on Wednesday ordered the initiation of a fourth “wave” of multidistrict litigation over alleged defects in the ignition switches of some General Motors vehicles, pointing to the “remarkable success” of the so-called wave approach in handling the sprawling MDL… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday upheld a class action settlement resolving claims over how Facebook collects data on private messages, rejecting the arguments of a class member who claimed the deal was “worthless” to Facebook users and overly lucrative for their lawyers… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Missouri federal judge on Friday shot down a bid by BASF Corp. to get out of a $250 million punitive damages award handed down in the first trial over alleged harm caused by the weedkiller dicamba, saying BASF and Monsanto Corp. would have to share the penalty… Read this piece in its entirety at
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