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King & Spalding

2022 Year in Review: FDA Drug and Device Advertising and Promotion Enforcement

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In 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) issued a total of nine enforcement letters targeting advertising and promotion violations for prescription drugs and devices.  A summary of the noteworthy...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Tenth Circuit Reverses, Finds Bakery’s Lanham Act Claim Under-Proofed

A common maxim in the service industry is that the customer always knows best. But a recent decision from the Tenth Circuit suggests that the maxim has its limits when it comes to interpreting ambiguous marketing claims.  In...more

Hogan Lovells

2020 OPDP Wrap-up: FDA monitoring drug manufacturers’ use of online communication platforms

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In 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) issued four warning letters and two untitled letters to pharmaceutical companies for promotional materials that allegedly...more

BakerHostetler

AD-ttorneys@law – November 2020 #1

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“The Dog Ate My Plush Toy” Doesn’t Fly in Orca Case - Sea World prevails in bench trial when plaintiff fails to produce stuffed toy - Whale of a… Okay, okay, it’s a class action involving Sea World’s former orca shows—you...more

Alston & Bird

Food & Beverage Digest – October 2020

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Welcome to the latest edition of the Food & Beverage Digest, our roundup of court cases and settlements affecting the agribusiness, food, beverage, and cosmetics industry. This month, not all Ritas are lovely, someone...more

BakerHostetler

AD-ttorneys@law – October 2020 #3

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Puffy Class Action Deflated by $1.9 Million Settlement - Mass-producer of tandoori supermarket breads won’t change packaging (much) - Folklore Fusion - Friend v. FGF Brands (USA), Inc. is a modern-day, South-Asian themed take...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Say Cheese! Seventh Circuit to Weigh In on Reasonable Consumer Standard in Grated Parmesan Case

On September 17, the Seventh Circuit heard argument in Ann Bell v. Albertson Companies Inc.  The case hinges on whether a reasonable consumer would understand the phrase “100% Grated Parmesan cheese” on a Parmesan cheese...more

BakerHostetler

AD-ttorneys@law – October 2020 #1

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First Amendment Rescues Butter Marketing from Regulation’s Hot, Hot Knife - Miyoko’s Kitchen can keep buttering up consumers, but must let the hormones go - Precious?...more

Alston & Bird

Food & Beverage Digest – September 2020

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Welcome to the latest edition of the Food & Beverage Digest, our roundup of court cases and settlements affecting the agribusiness, food, beverage, and cosmetics industry. This month, not all gummies are natural, one class...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Don’t Tune Out OPDP’s Recent Warning Letter For a Violative Radio Advertisement

On August 31, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) sent a Warning Letter to the sponsor of a drug for a violative direct-to-consumer (DTC) radio advertisement.1   The radio...more

Proskauer - Advertising Law

Court Lets Trader Joe’s Out of Sticky Situation Over Honey Advertising

A magistrate judge in the Northern District of California recently dismissed a putative class action alleging that Trader Joe’s misled its consumers about the purity of its manuka honey. Moore v. Trader Joe’s Co., No....more

Proskauer - Advertising Law

No More Baby Talk: Class Certification Denied in Gerber False Advertising Suit

The Northern District of California recently denied class certification to a plaintiff who alleged that Gerber Products misbranded nutritional claims about baby food products in violation of state and federal labeling laws....more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Dietary Supplement & Cosmetics Legal Bulletin | October 2017

The use of beauty products is “an understudied source of environmental chemical exposures” with a disparate effect on women of color, George Washington University and Occidental College researchers argue. Ami R. Zota, et al.,...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

FDA Scolds Company Claiming to Bake with Love

Where’s the love? Apparently, not at the FDA. On September 22 the FDA issued Warning Letter CMS# 532236 to Nashoba Brook Bakery, of Concord, Mass. Among several infractions cited in the letter was one for the misbranding...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Making Your Mark

The Pleads Of The Many: 50 Years of Star Trek Lawsuits

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the premiere of the original series of Star Trek, which first aired on NBC in September 1966. On July 22, this milestone will be marked in earnest when Paramount Pictures releases...more

Jackson Walker

Another Successful First Amendment Challenge to the Prohibition of Off-Label Promotion for FDA-Approved Drugs

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The Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment prevailed in the latest challenge to the FDA's prohibition against marketing FDA-approved drugs for off-label (or non-FDA-approved) uses. Applying the Second Circuit’s...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

FDA Cites Drug Company for Kim Kardashian Endorsement

This week might have been the first time that an FDA regulatory issue hit the headlines on TMZ and other “celebrity watcher” websites. In an August 7 Warning Letter sent to the drug company Duchesnay, Inc., FDA complains...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Class Dismissed

“All Natural” Suit Against AriZona Iced Tea: Class Decertified and Suit Tossed

In the world of food misbranding class actions, few cases have yet made it to the merits stage. Companies defending against these claims should accordingly take note of AriZona Iced Tea’s recent win in Ries v. AriZona...more

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