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.