Judge Holds Dispute With Lab That Tested Rice Cookers Must Be Arbitrated

Mealey's (August 22, 2018, 8:49 AM EDT) -- SAN DIEGO — A California federal judge on Aug. 20 dismissed a complaint for the third time, in which an importer and marketer of a rice cooker asserted claims for negligent and fraudulent misrepresentation and violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL), holding that it was required to arbitrate its dispute with an independent testing laboratory (Sherwood Marketing Group, LLC v. Intertek Testing Services, N.A., No. 3:17-cv-00782, S.D. Calif., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 141026)....