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.
March 29, 2023
A woman alleging that there are toxic substances in Mars Inc.'s Dove-branded chocolate pushed back against the company's contention that the suit fails because the chocolate was ultimately safe to consume, arguing that any level of contamination means chocolate buyers suffered economic injury.
January 06, 2023
Mars Inc. was hit with a proposed class action Thursday in New York federal court accusing the confectionary giant of failing to disclose on its labels that its Dove-branded dark chocolate allegedly contains toxic levels of lead and cadmium, which could cause cancer, organ damage and other irreversible health risks.