California Court Declines to Dismiss Food Label Class Action Despite Lack of Alleged Purchase Date
Food manufacturers received a setback earlier this week, when Judge Thelton Henderson of the Northern District of California ruled that where a consumer identifies a specific class period in which a defendant food manufacturer labeled its products in a deceptive manner, the consumer does not have to allege the specific date he or she purchased the product.
In Figy v. Lifeway Foods, Northern District of California, Case No. 13-cv-04828-THE, the plaintiff consumer brought claims against…