Second Circuit Adopts False Advertising Safe Harbor for Statements Made on FDA-approved Labeling Apotex Inc. v. Acorda Therapeutics, Inc., 823 F.3d 51 (2d Cir. 2016)
Court Dismisses Lanham Act Suit Targeting Better Business Bureau’s Statements About Own Rating System Wall & Assocs., Inc. v. Better Bus. Bureau of Central Virginia, No. 16-cv-119, 2016 WL 3087055 (E.D. Va. May 31, 2016)
Court Enjoins Likely False Exclusive-Formulation Statement Simone v. VSL Pharm., Inc., No. TDC-15-1356, 2016 WL 3466033 (D. Md. June 20, 2016)
Food Certification Organization’s Email to Grocery Stores Enjoined as Commercial Speech Handsome Brook Farm, LLC v. Humane Farm Animal Care, Inc., --- F. Supp. 3d ---, No.16-cv-592, 2016 WL 3348431 (E.D. Va. June 15, 2016)
Plaintiffs Failed to Show Their Evidence of Loss Was Representative Dicuio v. Brother Int’l Corp., No. 15-2548, 2016 WL 3545552 (3d Cir. June 29, 2016) (unpublished)
Class Certification Denied in Common Defect Case Where Individual Issues Predominated Romig v. Pella Corp., No. 2:14-cv-00433 2016 WL 3125472 (D.S.C. June 3, 2016)
Class Claims Mooted by Accepted Offer of Judgment Montgomery v. Kraft Foods Global, Inc., 822 F.3d 304 (6th Cir. 2016)
Disclaimer Neutralized Alleged False Advertising Zito v. United Technologies Corp., No. 3:15-cv-00744, 2016 WL 2946157 (D. Conn. Mar. 11, 2016)
Investigation Could Not Support Plaintiff’s Allegations on ‘Information and Belief’ Nunez v. Best Buy, Inc., No. 15-cv-03965, 2016 WL 3189197 (D. Minn. June 7, 2016)
Bare Violation of Statute May Be Insufficient to Confer Article III Standing to Bring Class Action Claims Spokeo v. Robins, No. 13-1339, 578 U.S.___, 136 S. Ct. 1540 (2016)
Second Circuit: Commonality Not Met Where Plaintiff Failed to Establish a Uniform Representation Garrido v. Money Store, No. 15-1891, 2016 WL 2956914 (2d Cir. May 23, 2016) (summary order)
Premium Price Alone Cannot Constitute Misrepresentation Parent v. MillerCoors LLC, No. 3:15-cv-01204, 2016 WL 3348818 (S.D. Cal. June 16, 2016)
Individual Understandings of Allegedly Deceptive Product Name Destroyed Predominance Pierce-Nunes v. Toshiba Am. Info. Sys., No. CV 14-7242-DMG (KSx) (ECF No. 205) (C.D. Cal. June 23, 2016)
Warner Bros. Settles FTC Allegations Concerning Failure to Disclose Use of Online “Influencers” to Market Video Game In the Matter of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc., No. 152 3034 (Order Entered July 11, 2016)
Volkswagen Settles “Clean Diesel” Charges to the Tune of $14.7 Billion FTC v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., No. 3:16-cv-1534 (N.D. Cal.)
FDA Declares Label “Evaporated Cane Juice” False and Misleading in New Guidance
PayPal Settles Texas State Attorney General’s Charges That Venmo Users’ Contact Lists Were Misused and Private Information Inadvertently Disclosed In the Matter of State of Texas and PayPal, Inc. (Tex. Dist. Ct. May 2016)
California Appeals Court Finds Federal Airline Deregulation Act Preempts CalOPPA in Fly Delta Mobile App Case People ex rel. Harris v. Delta, 247 Cal. App. 4th 884 (Cal. Ct. App., 1st Dist. 2016)
Florida District Court Dismisses Wendy’s Data Breach Class Action for Lack of Standing Torres v. The Wendy’s Co., No. 6:16-cv-00210 (M.D. Fla. July 15, 2016)
InMobi Settles FTC Charges That Geo-Tracking Advertising Software Collected Consumer and Children’s Private Information in Violation of Federal Law United States v. InMobi PTE Ltd., No. 16-cv-03474 (N.D. Cal. June 22, 2016)
Third Circuit Dismisses Bulk of Federal and State Claims Against Viacom for Collecting and Sharing Information About Children’s Internet Activities In re: Nickelodeon Consumer Privacy Litig., --- F.3d ---, No. 15-1441, 2016 WL 3513782 (3d Cir. June 27, 2016)
Applying Spokeo, Missouri Federal District Court Judge Dismisses Complaint Against Scottrade Alleging Injuries Suffered From a Hack of the Company’s Confidential Customer Information Duqum, et al. v. Scottrade, Inc., No. 4:15-cv-1537-SPM (E.D. Mo. July 12, 2016)
Applying Spokeo, Wisconsin Federal District Court Judge Dismisses Time Warner Cable Personal Information Collection Case Gubala v. Time Warner Cable, No. 15-1078 (E.D. Wis. June 17, 2016)
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