UCL Suit For ‘Natural’ Fruit Chunks In Synthetic Syrup May Proceed, Judge Says

(July 28, 2023, 2:21 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge granted in part and denied in part a fruit company’s motion to dismiss a consumer’s putative class complaint accusing it of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other states’ consumer protection laws by advertising its fruit chunk products as “natural” while they in fact contain synthetic ingredients, dismissing the plaintiff’s multistate consumer protection claims but allowing her UCL and Oregon state law claims to proceed....