Tuesday, April 26, 2022

"Australia's #1" is puffery for product sourced from but not sold in Australia

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Painaway Australia Pty Limited ACN 151 146 977 v. MaxRelief USA, Inc., 2022 WL 1028024, No. 18-3854 (E.D. Pa. Apr. 6, 2022) [not so sure the...

court declines to decide between Eveready and Squirt and lets a linguist in too

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Therapeutics MD, Inc. v. Evofem Biosciences, Inc., 2022 WL 1013285, No. 20-CV-82296-RUIZ/REINHART (S.D. Fla. Mar. 30, 2022) (R&R) The ...

advertiser class certified in case about Meta's overclaiming of "Potential Reach" of ads

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DZ Reserve v. Meta Platforms, Inc., 2022 WL 912890, No. 3:18-cv-04978-JD (N.D. Cal. Mar. 29, 2022) The court certified a class of United S...
Monday, April 25, 2022

worsening child labor problem makes falsity of Nestle's socially responsible cocoa claims plausible

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Walker v. Nestle USA, Inc., 2022 WL 901553, No. 3:19-cv-723-L-DEB (S.D. Cal. Mar. 28, 2022) Walker alleged that Nestle’s product labels fa...

repeat purchase doesn't render consumer protection claim implausible

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Harris v. Rust-Oleum Corp., 2022 WL 952743, No. 21-cv-01376 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 30, 2022) Rust-Oleum sells RainBrella, “an inexpensive glass t...

two opinions send "false advertising of certification mark" claim to jury

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U.S. Structural Plywood Integrity Coalition v. PFS Corp., 2022 WL 898598, No. 19-62225-CIV-ALTMAN (S.D. Fla. Mar. 28, 2022) Take it away, ...

Noncommercial speakers can be liable for contributory false advertising

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ExeGi Pharma, LLC v. Pacifici, 2022 WL 889275, No. 1:21-CV-2134-TWT (N.D. Ga. Mar. 25, 2022) I know it probably seems sometimes like I app...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

Art kerfuffle of the day

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 Stuart Semple has a well-publicized, highly entertaining feud with Anish Kapoor. According to the email I received,  KAPOOR HAS FINALLY UNV...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Reading List: Democracy of Sound

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 Insta-rec for  Alex Cummings, Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century . Electronic...
Friday, April 08, 2022

Reading list: The Hydraulics of Intermediary Liability Regulation

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My former student Ben Horton has published The Hydraulics of Intermediary Liability Regulation , 70 Clev. St. L. Rev. 201 (2022), making an ...
Friday, March 25, 2022

Asterisk can't limit "reef safe" sunscreen claim to only 2 ingredients

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Locklin v. StriVectin Operating Co., 2022 WL 867248, No. 21-cv-07967-VC (N.D. Cal. Mar. 23, 2022) StriVectin makes sunscreen products that...
Thursday, March 24, 2022

Museums and moral rights

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Hermon Atkins McNeil, The Sun Vow (at the NY Metropolitan Museum of Art): Note the card displayed below--on the left, in black on white: ...

Implied falsity and infant formula

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Evolve Biosystems, Inc. v. Abbott Labs., 2022 WL 846900, No. 19 C 5859 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 22, 2022) Evolve (and the Regents of the UC) sued A...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

SmileDirect may indirectly deceive: "implicit misrepresentation of FDA approval" theory is not precluded

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Ciccio v. SmileDirectClub, LLC, 2022 WL 843774, No. 3:19-cv-00845 (M.D. Tenn. Mar. 21, 2022) The district court doesn’t seem to be having ...

clicking on competitor's ads isn't commercial advertising or promotion

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Motogolf.com, LLC v. Top Shelf Golf, LLC, 2022 WL 834790, No. 2:20-cv-00674-APG-EJY (D. Nev. Mar. 21, 2022) Weird edge case! Motogolf boug...