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April 30, 2021 Citing his lack of assurance that the proposed settlement is “fundamentally fair, adequate, and reasonable,” Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins of the Northern District of California on Thursday denied preliminary approval of a settlement in a class action against Bayer Healthcare LLC and Beiersdorf Inc. which alleged the defendants’ “mineral-based” sunscreen label was deceiving to consumers, as the products additionally contain chemical ingredients.
Mike Xavier and Steven Prescott brought the lawsuit against the defendants on Jan. 1, 2020, alleging violations of California laws governing unfair competition, false advertising, and consumer protections, as well as breach of express warranty and unjust enrichment. The plaintiffs claimed that the product labels for various mineral-based kids sunscreens under the brand Coppertone misled consumers, “exposing babies and children to harmful chemical-based ingredients hidden in their sunsc
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Now that it has been established a lawsuit over the empty space in movie theater candy should be heard in federal court, Tootsie Roll Industries is asking a judge to toss the case.
The company on March 10 filed its motion to dismiss the lawsuit with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, about a month after an appeals court refused to hear an appeal arguing it belonged in state court.
The lawsuit from the Clarkson Law Firm alleges there is too much air in boxes of Sugar Babies and Junior Mints – even though the boxes declare the weight of the food inside.
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – A class action lawsuit that S.C. Johnson & Son misled customers when it said its ecover cleaning products are made “with plant-based ingredients” fails to identify a single lie, the company argues.
S.C. Johnson filed a motion to dismiss March 3 in San Francisco federal court against the class action being pursued by the Clarkson Law Firm of Los Angeles and Moon Law in Palo Alto. In a January complaint, those firms targeted the ecover line – which includes laundry detergent, dishwasher tablets and toilet cleaner.
The suit claimed ingredients like coconut and palm oil are subjected to “substantial chemical modification and processing” that creates an entirely new, synthetically created ingredient.”
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – A class action plaintiff can’t sue over 26 different types of ChapStick when she only purchased three of them, the products’ maker is arguing.
GlaxoSmithKline filed a motion to dismiss Feb. 26 in San Francisco federal court in its defense against a lawsuit that claims its products aren’t “100% Natural,” as they claim to be.
GSK says Lisa Moore lacks standing to pursue her claims and has also failed to allege enough specific details to justify her fraud allegation. And her claims that the products contain synthetic ingredients are unsupported, the company says.
“She seeks injunctive relief correcting these statements though she no longer claims to be deceived by them and she only intends to purchase them again if they are reformulated to contain only natural ingredients,” says the motion, which was authored by lawyers at Dechert LLP.
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Cleaners made by For Life Products are not safe for pets and kids, as the company claims, a new class action lawsuit says.