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Dietary Supplement and Personal Care Products Regulatory Highlights – January 2021

Kelley Drye

Welcome to our monthly roundup of regulatory and litigation highlights impacting the dietary supplement and personal care products industries. NAD NAD tackled substantiation for “ #1 Dermatologist Recommended ”…

MLB Ticket Holders Left With One Strike to Keep Ticket Merchants in COVID Refund Class Action

In a series of orders issued earlier this month, Judge Dale S. Fischer of the Central District of California dealt two strikes to putative class claims against ticket merchants Ticketmaster/LiveNation and StubHub that…

SDNY Relies on “Simple Reading” of Label to Dismiss False Advertising Claim

Last week, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York dismissed a putative class action alleging that L’Oreal’s “EverSleek Keratin Caring” hair products deceived consumers into believing the products…

Ghirardelli Defeats White Baking Chips False Advertising Claims Premised On Faulty Survey Evidence

Last month, a California court, for a second time, dismissed a class action complaint asserting that Ghirardelli’s advertising for its “Classic White” “Premium Baking Chips” created the false impression that the…

What will “Phase II” of COVID-19 Class Actions Look Like?

As we previously reported, “Phase I” of class action filings relating to the COVID-19 pandemic has become a significant contagion of its own with more than 500 cases being filed since March challenging refund…