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For Your Consumption – March 2025: Always Reading the Tea Leaves

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In the March edition of For Your Consumption, our food & beverage digest of court cases and litigation trends affecting the food, beverage, agribusiness, and cosmetics industries, there’s nothing natural about beavers’ anal...more

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Food & Beverage Digest – July 2023: Sold By Weight, Not Volume

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In the July edition of the Food & Beverage Digest, our roundup of court cases and regulations affecting the food, beverage, agribusiness, and cosmetics industries, a kombucha goes pear-shaped, a New Yorker joins a coffee...more

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Honey I Shrunk the Whisky? Class Action Alleges Fraud over Mini Bottle Labeling

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An Illinois consumer recently filed a putative class action complaint against the makers of Fireball Whisky, claiming that the alcohol producer’s mini bottles deceived consumers into buying products labeled as “whisky,” even...more

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Food & Beverage Digest – January 2021

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Welcome to the latest edition of the Food & Beverage Digest, our roundup of court cases and settlements affecting the food, beverage, agribusiness, and cosmetics industries. This month, plaintiffs bang their heads...more

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Food & Beverage Litigation Update l May 2019

Silverman Speaks to Congressional Staff About Food Litigation Trends - Shook Partner Cary Silverman was an invited panelist at The George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School’s Law and Economics Center’s...more

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District Court Issues Opinion in Old Charter Bourbon False Advertising Class Action

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On February 5, 2018, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri issued an opinion in one of the many false advertising class actions brought against the industry in the past five years....more

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Food for Thought: A Review of 2016 Litigation

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Food for Thought is a review of significant court decisions affecting the food, beverage, dietary supplements and personal care products industry. Although many cases in this edition focus on class certification, others...more

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Summary Judgment Granted in Tito’s “Handmade” Vodka Case

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On September 27, 2016, the Northern District of Florida issued a decision in Pye v. Fifth Generation, Inc., N.D. Fla. No. 4:14cv493-RH/CAS, one of many false advertising class actions brought against the makers of Tito’s...more

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Location, Location, Location: Fraud Suit Filed Against Anheuser-Busch Over 'Abbey' Beer

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As anyone in real estate will tell you, location matters. Apparently, location also matters when it comes to selecting a beer. Recently, a purchaser of Leffe Beers brought a class action lawsuit in Florida federal court...more

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Ruling Could Put Deceptive Labeling Cases on Hold

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today placed on hold a consumer class action involving yogurt labels until the FDA issues final guidance on use of the terms at issue in the dispute—a decision that could ripple...more

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Consumer Class Actions Against Liquor Producers Follow Familiar Path

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Plaintiffs’ class action attorneys tend to follow trends. They are a savvy breed of attorney, at once creative and lazy (or efficient, depending on one’s perspective). One attorney discovers a statute, claim, or industry, and...more

Proskauer - Advertising Law

Maker’s Marketing: Bourbon Distiller Racks up “Handmade” False Advertising Victory

In a decision that will interest distillers and hipster connoisseurs of artisanal beverages alike, a district court in the Northern District of Florida has decided that Maker’s Mark can describe its whiskey as “handmade”...more

Proskauer - Advertising Law

Wasted Away in Margaritaville: With Unascertainable Class, District Court Denies Class Certification in Skinnygirl Margarita Case

Alleging violations of Illinois statutory and common law, Amy Langendorf brought suit on behalf of “Any and all persons who purchased ‘Skinnygirl’ Margarita spirits in Illinois from March 1, 2009 until the date notice is...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Q&A Series: Class Action Litigation Has Focused On Claims By Spirits Producers on Labels, Websites, and In Marketing Campaigns

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In some cases class action plaintiffs are making claims based on an allegedly incorrect statement on a label. Does TTB approval of a label protect a producer against claims based on the content of the label? TJC: There...more

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