LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A customer survey to find out to what extent tortilla-eaters prefer them to be made in Mexico forgot to show respondents the "Made in U.S.A." disclaimer on the back.
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - Class action lawyers alleging consumers were misled by a Mexican flag on packages of tortillas are asking a federal judge to certify a California class as they face a motion to dismiss.
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - New developments on what is reasonable from a consumer should cause the dismissal of a class action lawsuit over tortillas made in the U.S.A. that feature a Mexican flag on the front of the package.
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – A Georgia-based Mexican food company must face a class action lawsuit that alleges it fools customers into thinking its products are made south of the border.
Judge Jesus Bernal made his ruling April 22 in a lawsuit against Ole Mexican Foods over its tortillas, on which the company puts Spanish-language phrases and a Mexican flag. Bernal refused the company’s arguments made in a Dec. 22 motion to dismiss.
The tortillas at issue have packages that say “A taste of Mexico” in Spanish. But the packages also disclose they are made in America and that Ole is a Georgia company.
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – Like other courts, a Los Angeles federal judge should throw out a proposed class action lawsuit that alleges shoppers are misled into thinking where certain products are made because of how they are marketed.
Ole Mexican Foods made that plea in a motion to dismiss filed Dec. 22 in a lawsuit seeking compensation because its tortilla packages have “A taste of Mexico” written in Spanish on them, as well as the Mexican flag, even though the products are made in the U.S.
Four factually similar cases have been tossed recently, the company says, under a test of whether a “reasonable consumer” would be misled.