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.
January 06, 2023
A group of parents alleging that baby food manufacturer Nurture Inc. hid the presence of toxic heavy metals in its products are pushing back against a bid to dismiss their consolidated complaint, saying Nurture is mischaracterizing their claims as based on safety instead of false advertising and labeling.
November 22, 2022
Baby food maker Nurture Inc. urged a New York federal judge to dismiss claims from parents that its products are contaminated with heavy metals, saying their accusations are "dramatic" and can't plausibly establish that the levels of heavy metals in its baby food are unsafe.
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 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.
September 02, 2021
A New York federal judge consolidated more than a dozen suits that claim Nurture Inc. manufactured baby food containing dangerous heavy metals, just a few months after similar litigation against another baby food maker, Hain Celestial Group Inc., was joined in another court.
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.