OAKLAND, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - Having abandoned their effort to certify a nationwide class, lawyers are now asking a federal judge to let them pursue their case on behalf of those who bought ChapStick in California.
OAKLAND, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Class action lawyers given the green light to sue S.C. Johnson & Son have filed a motion that, if granted, could prove costly for the company.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – California class action lawyers are using a recent federal decision in their favor to attempt to boost their other cases.
The Clarkson Law Firm of Los Angeles and Moon Law of Palo Alto on May 12 pointed Oakland federal judge Jeffrey White at a colleague’s decision a week earlier that allowed a lawsuit against S.C. Johnson & Son to move forward.
That May 5 ruling said a reasonable consumer could have been misled by S.C. Johnson’s Ecover cleaning products, which are marketed as having plant-based ingredients. The lawsuit says consumers are misled into thinking they only contain healthy ingredients despite the presence of synthetic materials.
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Reasonable consumers expecting 100% natural products could have been misled by S.C. Johnson & Son when it claimed its Ecover cleaning line is made with plant-based ingredients.
That’s the ruling of a San Francisco federal judge who on May 5 refused to grant the company’s motion to dismiss Elizabeth Maisel’s proposed class action over 14 Ecover products. The decision will allow plaintiffs lawyers at the Clarkson Law Firm and Moon Law to continue pursuing the case.
Magistrate judge Thomas Hixson denied all seven of S.C. Johnson’s arguments, notably that a reasonable consumer would not have been misled by its claims because he or she could read the ingredients list on the backs of the products and find whether they have synthetic materials in them.
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April 30, 2021 Citing his lack of assurance that the proposed settlement is “fundamentally fair, adequate, and reasonable,” Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins of the Northern District of California on Thursday denied preliminary approval of a settlement in a class action against Bayer Healthcare LLC and Beiersdorf Inc. which alleged the defendants’ “mineral-based” sunscreen label was deceiving to consumers, as the products additionally contain chemical ingredients.
Mike Xavier and Steven Prescott brought the lawsuit against the defendants on Jan. 1, 2020, alleging violations of California laws governing unfair competition, false advertising, and consumer protections, as well as breach of express warranty and unjust enrichment. The plaintiffs claimed that the product labels for various mineral-based kids sunscreens under the brand Coppertone misled consumers, “exposing babies and children to harmful chemical-based ingredients hidden in their sunsc