Mealey's (December 1, 2022, 9:52 AM EST) -- CHICAGO — A restaurant franchisor that licenses its logo to a company that packs and distributes snack sticks at the center of a putative class complaint over the labeling was dismissed as a defendant after a federal judge in Illinois ruled that the franchisor wasn’t shown to be liable; however, the judge denied requests by the defendants to strike the proposed nationwide class and to dismiss two of the three claims being made....