A federal judge in California has disqualified Squire Patton Boggs from a high-stakes case between the sugar and high-fructose corn syrup industries due to conflicts that arose from the law firm’s merger last year.

Squire Sanders brought the case in 2011 on behalf of The Sugar Association Inc. in Washington and nine of its members, alleging the Corn Refiners Association and its members misled consumers in advertisements stating that corn syrup is “natural” and no different nutritionally from table sugar.

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