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.
November 01, 2022
A New Jersey federal judge tossed without prejudice Monday claims that Plum PBC and Campbell Soup Co. sold baby food with dangerous levels of heavy metals in them, finding that the consumers haven't established an actual or imminent harm and therefore don't have standing to sue.
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.
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.
February 12, 2021
Campbell Soup Co. and Nurture Inc. were hit with separate federal lawsuits Thursday alleging their baby food products contain elevated levels of heavy metals, becoming the latest companies to face complaints connected to a recent House Oversight Committee report.