Judge Refuses To Dismiss UCL, FAL Suit Over Silk Coconutmilk’s Product Label

Mealey's (September 26, 2019, 7:11 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California on Sept. 13 denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss a putative class action alleging that a product label’s “cholesterol free” description creates a misleading impression about the product’s health-promoting benefits, concluding that “there simply is no doubt that plaintiff has stated a plausible claim that the labels are misleading” (Donovan Marshall v. Danone US, Inc., No. 19-01332, N.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 160200)....