Many consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies’ contract with other companies to manufacture goods sold under the CPG companies’ label or brand. These arrangements are called “co-manufacturing” or “contract manufacturing.”...more
What You Need To Know In A Minute Or Less - Session replay generally refers to a common analytics tool that captures certain website activity data—such as mouse movements, clicks, and page visits—and then reconstructs this...more
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN A MINUTE OR LESS - Defending consumer class action claims alleging false and misleading product labeling based on the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) is similar to the defense...more
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Makers and sellers of retail food and beverage products may face a wave of class action litigation over so-called "forever chemicals" (or PFAS) in the coming years....more
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As of 1 January 2022, certain retailers, manufacturers, and importers are required to disclose the presence of bioengineered food and food that contains bioengineered...more
When companies make advertising claims (including websites, social media, print, and product labels) that a product is beneficial to or not harmful to the natural environment, California law requires those companies to...more
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN A MINUTE OR LESS - You are in-house counsel for a consumer-facing company, and you have just been handed a letter from a plaintiff’s firm you’ve never heard of, threatening to file a class action over...more
In a shot across the bow, the Supreme Court of California has put sellers of organic food products on notice that they may be subject to class action lawsuits for deceptive “organic” food labeling. Specifically, on December...more
Two recent decisions by Federal Court Judge Lucy Koh in the Northern District of California have strengthened the position of defendants facing “all natural” food labeling class actions in California by making it even harder...more
The Supreme Court’s recent opinion in Comcast Corp. v. Behrend all but invites defendants to make a number of arguments when attempting to defeat class certification. The Behrend case is therefore the latest move by the U.S....more
On January 24, 2013, the California Supreme Court held that common law exceptions to the standard four-year statute of limitations apply to claims brought under California’s Unfair Competition Law (“UCL”). The Aryeh decision...more