By Ross Todd | January 31, 2019
An en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit blocked a San Francisco city ordinance that would have required health warnings on advertisements for sodas and other sugar-sweetened drinks.
By Tony Mauro | January 16, 2019
Nancy Maveety, Tulane University political scientist and Supreme Court scholar, chats about her book "Glass and Gavel: The U.S. Supreme Court and Alcohol."
By John Council | December 18, 2018
After a five-week trial, a federal jury in San Francisco issued a defense verdict in a $500 million antitrust class action filed against two South Korean companies accused of conspiring to fix the price of ramen noodles in the United States.
By Scott Graham | November 21, 2018
A Los Angeles jury finds infringement and awards $5 million in punitives, but zero actual damages. Now a big fight looms over an injunction to stop Integrated Supply Network from infringing.
By Sarah L. Brew, Tyler A. Young, Emily R. Bodtke and Rita Mansuryan | November 7, 2018
In what seems like an uncharacteristic move for the historically consumer-friendly state, California recently added new safe harbors protecting product manufacturers from claims of “slack fill” in packaging, signaling a dwindling receptivity to the recent spurt of slack fill litigation in that state.
By Ross Todd | November 5, 2018
A federal judge in San Jose mostly turned back a request from Plano, Texas-based Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc. to toss the California class action finding consumers could plausibly claim they expected Canada Dry to contain ginger root rather than a ginger derivative.
By Ross Todd | October 23, 2018
Ninth Circuit Judge Dorothy Nelson: "In sum, the allegations paint a picture of overseas slave labor that defendants perpetuated from headquarters in the United States."
By Ross Todd | October 9, 2018
A federal judge in San Jose has certified separate classes of consumers who bought six- and 12-packs of the Hawaiian-themed Kona Brewing Co. line of beers, which predominantly come from breweries in Oregon, Washington, New Hampshire and Tennessee.
By Ross Todd | October 4, 2018
A Ninth Circuit Panel held that federal food labeling laws—which required The Kroger Co. to put "0g Trans Fat per serving" on the back nutrition panels of items when they contained less than .5g per serving—didn't preempt state law claims over misleadingly touting zero grams elsewhere on the packaging.
By Cheryl Miller | September 18, 2018
What are the biggest potential pitfalls for companies under these new rules? How are lawyers advising clients? We caught up with Alston & Bird's Maureen Gorsen, former director of California's Department of Toxic Substances Control, for her perspective.
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