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False Claims Act Insights - Think You Know Whistleblowers? Think Again.
PilieroMazza Annual Review What DOJ’s Annual FCA Report Means for Government Contractors
Ad Law Tool Kit Show – Episode 6 – Mitigating Class Action Exposure
Compliance into the Weeds: The ACFE 2024 Anti-Fraud Technology Benchmarking Report
AD Nauseam: Cabbage Soup v. Keto Diet: The Evolving FTC and NAD Approach to Post-Holiday Weight Loss Claims
The Justice Insiders Podcast: The Sam Bankman-Fried Trial: Defendants Testifying (Poorly), FOMO, and How to Actually Blame Lawyers
Detecting Fraud in New Jersey Workers' Compensation
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 25 - An Investigative Journalist’s Insight Into the COVID-19 Fraud Strike Force
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 11
JONES DAY TALKS®: Looking for ESG Fraud – CFTC Solicits Carbon Markets Whistleblowers
ChatGPT Risks for Compliance Programs
The Justice Insiders Podcast: Varsity Blues Reversals Turn DOJ Red
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Crypto Enforcement Actions - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
A New York federal district court dismissed a putative class action asserting violations of state and federal consumer protection laws, fraud and unjust enrichment arising from claims that it was misleading to label juice...more
In food and beverage trends, during May 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a significant ruling regarding pork farming under the Dormant Commerce Clause, holding that a California law requiring pork sold in...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) continues to evidence a strong commitment to bringing enforcement actions against false or deceptive US-origin marketing claims. In short, to avoid landing on the wrong side of such an...more
Our weekly roundup aims to keep our readers up to date on recent notable rulings in the food & consumer packaged goods space. - Felix Bermudez et al. v. Colgate-Palmolive Company, No. 1:21-cv-10988-JLR (S.D.N.Y. – March...more
Our weekly roundup aims to keep our readers up to date on recent notable rulings in the food & consumer packaged goods space. - Cade Seljak, et al. v. Pervine Foods LLC, No 21-cv-09561-NRB (S.D.N.Y. – March 3, 2023): The...more
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on January 18, 2023, that it has issued a new final rule titled Strengthening Organic Enforcement (the SOE Rule). The new regulation becomes effective on March 20, 2023, and...more
A number of recent cases seek to combat what plaintiffs claim is a surge of deceptive marketing by companies in the food space. In particular, there have been a number of claims concerning the use and labeling of vanilla...more
The Tenth Circuit recently held that the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA) gets the final word on what “Product of the U.S.A.” means for labels of beef products. Thornton v. Tyson Foods, Inc., No. 20-2124, 2022 WL 727628...more
As we discussed in a previous post, the Northern District of California recently dismissed a plaintiff’s claim that the term “vanilla” was misleading on the label of a soymilk product. The Southern District of New York has...more
Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 18 (September 17, 2020) - The treasurer of a North Carolina seafood company, Garland F. Fulcher Seafood Co. Inc. (Garland Fulcher), conspired to mislabel seafood as being...more
On August 5, 2020, the Agricultural Marketing Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture published a proposed rule designed to strengthen the agency’s oversight and enforcement of the production, handling, and sale of...more
On June 8, 2020, Judge Katherine Polk Failla in the Southern District of New York dismissed a putative class action against TGI Friday’s (“Friday’s”) for alleged deceptive advertising....more
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and Food & Drug Administration (“FDA”) ramped up their enforcement letters since they first issued COVID-19 related warning letters a month ago. ...more
LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - France to Ban Mass Culling of Male Chicks - France’s agriculture minister has reportedly announced that the country will prohibit the mass culling of male chicks shortly after they...more
LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - Medical Groups Call for SSB Taxes- The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association have issued a policy statement calling for taxes on sugar-sweetened...more
LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - FDA Commissioner Questions Milk Standards Enforcement - At a speaking engagement, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb reportedly expressed that the...more
Truffles are renowned as one of the rarest delicacies in the world. Perhaps not quite as rare, but still fairly uncommon, is the dismissal with prejudice of a false advertising class action without the plaintiffs being...more
A new putative consumer class action claiming damages in excess of $5,000,000 was filed earlier this month in the Northern District of California against Goya Foods, Inc. (“Goya”). The plaintiff, a purchaser of Goya octopus...more
Supreme Court to Consider Lanham Act Standing - What factors should determine standing to sue for false advertising under the Lanham Act? The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to answer that question in a case from...more