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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

California’s New Price Transparency Law May Reshape Pricing Practices in Broad Range of Industries

Effective July 1, 2024, new California Senate Bill 478 (SB 478) bans the practice of “drip pricing,” where the price for product or service is advertised without including all mandatory fees and charges that consumers must...more

Bilzin Sumberg

Barilla's Pasta Under Fire: Class Action Certified Based on Misleading Label Intimating “Italian” Origin

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On May 28, 2024, Chief Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu, of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, certified a class of consumers in an action against Barilla Foods....more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Consumer’s Claims About His Rights to iTunes Purchases Survives Motion to Dismiss

What Does It Mean to "Buy" Digital Content? On August 13, 2020, David Andino sued Apple Inc. (Apple) in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California for violations of three California state laws: 1)...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Exploring the New California Consumer Privacy Act’s Unusual Class Action Cure Provision

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) takes effect on January 1, 2020, and applies to all companies that do business in the Golden State. The new act is California’s rejoinder to Europe’s General Data Protection...more

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Advancing Human Rights Claims Based on Global Supply Chain Activities: Recent Developments in California and Canada

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Courts in California and Canada have emerged as testing grounds for advancing claims of forced labor in global supply chains.  The plaintiffs’ approach is to make companies more accountable to “soft law” norms like the UN...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Class Dismissed

District Court Sacks Ginkgo Biloba False Advertising Case

On February 2, 2017, the Central District of California terminated a false advertising lawsuit against Schwabe North America, Inc. and Nature’s Way Products, LLC (Defendants), based on allegations that the companies...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Class Dismissed

A Berry Mixed Decision: Consumer Class Action Challenging Packaging of “Himalania” Goji Berries Largely Survives Motion to...

On September 2, 2016, United States District Judge Dean P. Pregerson for the Central District of California granted in part and denied in part a motion to dismiss a class action complaint alleging violations of the UCL and...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

"Assuming" the Obvious: Exclusion for “Assumption of Liability in a Contract” Does Not Apply to Breach of Professional Services

In what it described as a case of first impression, the Northern District of California ruled that a professional liability policy that excluded the insured’s “assumption of liability obligations in a contract or agreement”...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Class Dismissed

The Devil’s in the Details: Court Dismisses “Made in the U.S.A.” Fraud Claims against Heinz Because Plaintiff Failed to Allege...

On April 22, 2016, in Alaei v. Kraft Heinz Food Co. (“Heinz”), No. 3:15-cv-02961, Southern District of California Judge Michael M. Anello granted defendant Heinz’s motion to dismiss without prejudice plaintiff Suzanne Alaei’s...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Lands’ End Requests Dismissal of “Made in U.S.A.” Class Action After Reimbursing Plaintiff

Last week, Lands’ End tried a second time to dismiss a “Made in U.S.A.” class action with the novel argument that, because the company had already reimbursed the plaintiff for the necktie she purchased, she is not injured and...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

California Supreme Court Upholds Arbitration Clause, but Unconscionability Remains a Defense to Arbitration

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The California Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Sanchez v. Valencia Holding Company, LLC, on August 3, 2015, reversing a finding by the Court of Appeal that an arbitration provision was unconscionable...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Class Dismissed

Rescue Remedy Decision Confirms that CLRA Notice Requirement Has Real Teeth

A recent decision from the Southern District of California demonstrates the potential narrowing effect of a failure to strictly comply with the notice requirement for claims for damages under California’s Consumers Legal...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Dole Defeats “All Natural Claims” for Sweet Victory

On December 8, 2014, U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted defendant Dole’s motion for summary judgment of the plaintiff’s false labeling claims in...more

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