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Soup maker sued for salt and fat content

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 19 2010

A New York resident has sued Campbell Soup Co. alleging that its “Less Sodium” and “Healthy Request” tomato soups are falsely advertised because they contain the same levels of salt and fat as the company’s “regular” tomato soup

Class action filed against FDA-targeted companies over “0 g trans fat” claim

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 19 2010

A New York resident has filed a false-advertising class action in a California federal court against the companies that make certain ice cream products labeled with the statement "0 g trans fat."

Some claims dismissed in dispute over supply-chain insurance coverage

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 12 2010

A federal court in California has dismissed without prejudice some of the claims filed by a food supplier in a dispute over insurance coverage in food-contamination litigation

Eighth Circuit finds some poultry processing facility losses not covered by insurance

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 12 2010

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that certain business expense claims and a personal property claim made by a poultry processor for damages sustained during a break in electrical service caused by an ice storm were not covered by the processor's insurance policy

Hearings begin on fraud allegations in litigation over pesticides used on Nicaraguan banana plantations

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2010

A California trial court has reportedly begun hearing evidence to determine if a 2007 $2.3 million jury award to Nicaraguan banana plantation workers who claimed they were sterilized by exposure to pesticides was based on fraud

Federal appeals court sends obesity disability litigation back to trial court

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2010

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has returned to a federal district court litigation alleging that a karate instructor was fired because he was obese in violation of a New York City law that forbids disability-based workplace discrimination

Colombians sue Chiquita in U.S. court for alleged terror campaign

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 19 2010

Nearly 1,000 unnamed plaintiffs, who claim to be family members of individuals purportedly killed by terrorist organizations in Colombia's Urabá region, have sued Chiquita Brands International, Inc., alleging that throughout the 1990s and at least until 2004, the company “funded, armed, and otherwise supported” these organizations “to produce bananas in an environment free from labor opposition and social disturbances.”

Pelman “obesity” lawsuit reassigned yet again

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 12 2010

Over the past two years, little has taken place in Pelman v. McDonald’s Corp., the putative class action litigation brought in 2002 on behalf of obese and overweight teenagers who alleged that the fast food restaurant is responsible for their weightrelated health conditions

Federal court dismisses “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” case

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2010

A federal district court in California has dismissed claims against the company that makes the product "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter," finding that, while not preempted under federal labeling law, the complaint failed to allege facts "plausibly suggestive" of a claim entitling the plaintiff to relief under the U.S. Supreme Court’s recently adopted TwomblyIqbal pleading standard

E. coli plaintiff settles with Cargill

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2010

A woman featured in a 2009 New York Times article that was part of a Pulitzer-prize winning series on food safety has reportedly settled her claims against Cargill, Inc., which allegedly produced the E. coli-contaminated hamburger that left her paralyzed with neurological problems and kidney damage

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