Magistrate:  Claims Involving GNC Product Labels ‘Plausibly Establish UCL Standing’

Mealey's (November 18, 2019, 12:08 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal magistrate judge in California on Nov. 15 denied GNC Holdings Inc.’s motion to dismiss California unfair competition law (UCL) and all other claims in a consumer class lawsuit alleging that the product labels describing GNC’s dietary supplements' functions were unlawful because they did not include a federally required disclaimer (Richa Arora, et al. v. GNC Holdings, Inc., No. 19-02414, N.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 198723)....