March 11, 2024
A California federal judge on Monday appeared open to granting Plum Organics summary judgment on allegations the baby-food-maker failed to disclose potential toxins in its baby food products, doubting that the consumers have supported their claims with admissible evidence and telling counsel, "It's not my job to go research."
January 01, 2024
Food and beverage attorneys have no shortage of interesting litigation to follow in 2024, from Starbucks' sprawling fight with employees who are determined to organize, to claims over heavy metals and "forever chemicals" contaminating food, and McDonald's asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on the issue of no-poach clauses in franchisee agreements.
August 08, 2022
A New York federal judge on Monday tapped Lori G. Feldman of George Gesten McDonald PLLC and Rebecca A. Peterson of Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP as interim lead co-counsels in consolidated litigation over allegedly contaminated Nurture Inc. baby food.
January 11, 2022
A California federal judge refused Monday to toss a proposed class action alleging Plum Organics failed to disclose potential toxins in its baby food products, finding that the claims aren't preempted by federal law and that the suit plausibly alleges a reasonable consumer could be duped by the alleged omissions.
January 03, 2022
Food and beverage attorneys will have their hands full in 2022 litigating a slew of claims that baby food contains toxic heavy metals, that environmentally sustainable products don't live up to their claims, that "natural" labeling is misleading, and that poultry, pork and beef producers rigged product prices.
December 17, 2021
Plum PBC and Campbell Soup Co. have asked a New Jersey federal court to throw out claims that they sold baby food with dangerous levels of heavy metals in them, saying the claims are based on an "alarmist" government report and nobody in the suit has alleged anyone was actually harmed by the products.
December 02, 2021
A proposed class of parents on Wednesday told a California federal judge that their claims over alleged toxins in baby foods aren't preempted by federal law since Plum PBC knew its foods were contaminated but didn't disclose their presence.
May 27, 2021
Hain Celestial Group and a number of parents suing the baby food maker and others over alleged toxins in their products on Thursday urged the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation not to create an industrywide MDL, saying grouping all the claims against baby food companies wouldn't speed up the litigation.