(August 3, 2023, 10:16 AM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge denied a motion to dismiss a putative class action accusing a North Carolina hot sauce maker of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by misrepresenting its “Texas Pete” brand hot sauce product as made in Texas, finding that the plaintiff plausibly alleged that a reasonable consumer could interpret the product’s label design as implying that the product was made in Texas....