Ninth Circuit’s Ingredients List Rule Keeps Nestlé In Hot Water With Denial Of Nestlé’s Statute Of Limitations-Based Summary Judgment Motion
By EsqSocial Corporation 01/07/20
The Northern District of California recently applied the Ninth Circuit’s ingredients list rule in a putative class action decision. The Court refused to grant Nestlé USA Inc.’s summary judgment motion based on the statute of limitations in a suit involving allegations that Nestlé misleads consumers about the trans-fat content of their Coffee Mate creamer products. The Court held that a triable issue of fact remained because it was not clear when the consumer first learned about the alleged...<BR />By: <a href="https://www.jdsupra.com/profile/Faegre_Drinker/">Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP</a>