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Beef Products, Inc. files defamation suit against ABC

  • Stoel Rives LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 14 2012

Just yesterday, Beef Products, Inc., along with Technology, Inc. and Freezing Machines, Inc., collectively filed suit against ABC in Circuit Court in Union County, South Dakota claiming that ABC’s news coverage of lean finely textured beef, or what became infamously known by the nickname “pink slime,” was defamatory and ultimately devastating for the company’s reputation and business

"Sweet" and "natural": can one word have meaning and one not?

  • Stoel Rives LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 23 2010

Two news items are our topic today: Ben & Jerry's removed the term "all natural" from its ice cream and was immediately sued by someone; and some people are labelling ordinary onions as "sweet" and charging a premium for them

FDA issues warning on alcoholic energy drinks; states move to ban "blackout in a can"

  • Stoel Rives LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 17 2010

Amidst rising incidences of hospitalizations in college and teenage drinkers linked to consumption of alcoholic energy drinks, the Washington State Liquor Control Board banned their sale effective tomorrow, November 18, 2010

TerraChoice issues timely 2010 greenwashing report

  • Stoel Rives LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 27 2010

Just a few weeks after the Federal Trade Commission unveiled its proposed new Green Guides for public comment, environmental consulting firm TerraChoice chimes in with its 2010 report, "Sins of Greenwashing - Home and Family Edition."

FTC announces intent to issue compulsory process orders regarding marketing of food and beverages

  • Stoel Rives LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 26 2010

In a May 25, 2010, Federal Register Notice, the Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC") announced its intention to issue compulsory process orders to 48 food and beverage manufacturers, distributors, marketers, and quick service restaurant companies