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Amended Rule 26: Protecting Against Competitively Sensitive Disclosures

Hundreds of billions of business e-mails are sent per day.  That number may not come as a shock to many, but once a company is involved in litigation, e-discovery can be quite burdensome.  Even the mention of the phrase “e-discovery”

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Sweet Victory: Whole Foods Uses FDA Regulations to Dismiss Complaint in Greek Yogurt MDL

This month, United States District Judge Sam Sparks of the Western District of Texas dismissed a Second Amended Consolidated Complaint in an MDL styled In re: Whole Foods Market, Inc., Greek Yogurt Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation.  At issue in

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Understanding the Risk and Defending Against Food-Borne Illness Class Action Litigation

Companies in the food and beverage industry are routinely confronted with false advertising claims making incredulous allegations. Recently, consumers claimed to be misled because “Froot Loops” has no real fruit and there are no real berries in “Captain Crunch Crunchberries.”

Posted in Food

New FDA Rules Focus on Prevention, Not Remediation

In today’s world, it is an unfortunate reality that food products can be the subject of contamination, as well as subsequent recall and litigation. This issue poses a problem to all sectors of the food industry: produce (recent salmonella found

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