Papers filed in the just settled fee fight between POM Wonderful and Hogan Lovells show that the juice maker’s legal team struggled to keep its facts straight throughout the seven-month-long litigation.
Affidavits filed in District of Columbia Superior Court explain how POM’s lawyers publicly disclosed the existence of a Federal Trade Commission probe of the company’s advertising materials in a California case while at the same time telling a D.C. judge the investigation needed to remain a secret — going so far as to sue to prevent The National Law Journal from publishing the name of the federal agency.
