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-William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 2, Scene 1.
The meteoric rise in class actions over the past decade has been well-documented. Nowadays even mac & cheese is under attack, with two proposed nationwide class actions filed this month alone claiming labels such as “The Taste You Love”[1] and “Made with Goodness!”[2] are false and misleading.
Hair care products are also in the crosshairs. This month a plaintiff and her lawyers filed their second class action in a year alleging beauty companies falsely advertised their shampoo as “natural.”[3]
From consumer product companies to banks,[4] universities[5] and even The World Health Organization,[6] it seems that no one is beyond of the reach of the class action, especially in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. But have the plaintiffs in these cases suffered a bona fide injury caused by the defendants’ conduct?
CFPB Acting Director, Dave Uejio, and FTC Acting Chairwoman, Rebecca Slaughter, recently issued a joint statement on the agencies’ efforts to stop illegal evictions and protect.
Fitch
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Federal law doesn’t prevent the state of Mississippi from suing Johnson & Johnson over its failure to put a cancer warning on talcum powder products, the state’s highest court ruled, carving out an independent role for the state in regulating certain cosmetic products.
Johnson & Johnson appealed to the Mississippi Supreme Court after a lower court judge refused to dismiss the lawsuit first filed by former AG Jim Hood filed in 2014 and currently pursued by Republican AG Lynn Fitch, accusing J&J of violating state consumer protection laws by not warning consumers about the risk of ovarian cancer from using Johnson’s Baby Powder and other talc products.
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…Or Lie Tryin’
A famous playwright once noted that if you tell an audience that a character is wealthy, they will believe he is wealthy until he does something to contradict the notion like hand out money to other characters onstage.
That’s just not how rich people behave.
Rapper 50 Cent, AKA Curtis Jackson, is a case in point. 50 Cent was spotted handing out wads of cash to the employees of a Burger King last September $30,000 according to press accounts despite the fact that he filed for bankruptcy protection in 2015.