Plaintiffs Face Challenges In 'Cheese' Class Actions
Law360, New York ( March 2, 2016, 11:27 AM EST) -- Regular readers of Keller and Heckman's "Daily Intake" column will be all too familiar with the many consumer class actions filed in the "food court." These cases are typically filed in the federal courts in Northern California, with similar cases in federal courts in Los Angeles and New York. The most prominent have involved "natural" food marketing claims for products that contain alleged "unnatural" ingredients such as soy lecithin, xanthum gum and so-called genetically modified organisms (GMOs). However, the reach of the food court has extended to products containing partially hydrogenated oils, slack-fill cases, "food fraud," slave labor, evaporated cane juice, and "handmade" advertising claims, to name a few....
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