On Remand, Judge Dismisses UCL Suit Against CVS For Misleading Hand Sanitizer

(October 24, 2023, 2:15 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — Applying new precedent, a California federal judge granted CVS Pharmacy Inc. and its affiliate’s motion for reconsideration and dismissed a consumer’s putative class suit accusing them of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by selling a hand sanitizer product that claims on the label that it “kills 99% of germs” after the Ninth Circuit U.S Court of Appeals vacated the judge’s denial of class certification....