Judge Partly Dismisses UCL Suit Accusing Chocolate Maker Of Concealing Lead, Cadmium

(November 29, 2023, 2:17 PM EST) -- SAN DIEGO — A California federal judge granted in part and denied in part a motion to dismiss a putative class action brought against a chocolate maker by three consumers who accuse it of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by representing its chocolate products as containing “No weird ingredients” when the products in fact contain allegedly unsafe amounts of lead and cadmium....