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Class Action Complaint on 100% Natural Oil Dismissed

By Sean Wajert on November 29, 2011
Posted in Articles, Class Action, Consumer Fraud, Consumer Products, Food and Beverage

A federal court recently dismissed a proposed class action accusing a food company of misleadingly labeling cooking oils as 100% natural when they all…
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“Infected” Tissue Claim Not A Consumer Fraud Claim

By Sean Wajert on November 19, 2011
Posted in Articles, Consumer Fraud, Consumer Products, Toxic Tort

Readers have seen my warnings about plaintiff attorneys trying to turn every marketing statement of opinion or puffing into a consumer fraud claim. No…
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Defect Allegations Insufficient in Drug Case

By Sean Wajert on October 17, 2011
Posted in Articles, Drug and Device

We may be accustomed to talking about whether a product was “defective” and, as counsel for defendant sellers, working hard to show that the…
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A Picture Worth a Thousand Words Under Twombly?

By Sean Wajert on August 12, 2011
Posted in Articles, Class Action, Toxic Tort

We have posted about plaintiffs attorneys seeking to exploit the valuable and significant economic boon that is hydraulic fracturing. Today’s post com…
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Federal Court Dismisses Soda Misrepresentation Claim

By Sean Wajert on April 7, 2011
Posted in Articles, Class Action, Consumer Fraud, Consumer Products, Food and Beverage

A New Jersey federal recently dismissed a putative class action accusing The Coca-Cola Co. of misleading consumers about the health value of the carbo…
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Twombly and Iqbal Webinar

By Sean Wajert on October 26, 2010
Posted in Articles

Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings in Twombly and Iqbal —which updated the Conley “any set of facts” standard for motions …
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Proposed CFA Class Action on Bath Products Is Dismissed

By Sean Wajert on September 10, 2010
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Consumer Fraud, Consumer Products, Toxic Tort

A federal court has dismissed a putative class action accusing Johnson & Johnson Consumer Co. Inc., L’Oreal USA Inc., Kimberly-Clark Corp., and ot…
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Rule 15 Amendments May Impact Removal Prospects

By Sean Wajert on January 20, 2010
Posted in Articles

Readers of MassTortDefense know how important the choice of forum can be for significant product liability and mass tort matters. The differences betw…
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Does the Twombly-Iqbal Pleading Standard Apply to Defenses Too?

By Sean Wajert on January 12, 2010
Posted in Articles

A suit over an allegedly defective truck is the stage for the latest entry in the debate whether the claim pleading standards clarified in Bell Atlant…
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Anti-Iqbal Legislation Update

By Sean Wajert on November 25, 2009
Posted in Articles

A few months ago, we alerted readers to the bill that Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) had introduced that would undermine the clarified civil pleading stan…
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