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· 4/30/2002

Avery v. City of West Haven

Citations

  • 33 F. App'x 21

How courts have described this case

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  • collecting cases and concluding that 27 the FAL does not permit actions based on pure omissions
  • collecting cases and finding that the plain text 23 of the FAL requires an affirmative misrepresentation
  • dismissing claims that Hershey violated California consumer protection laws by omitting any disclosure of labor abuses in its supply chain on the packaging of its chocolate products as this omission was not unlawful, unfair, deceptive, or fraudulent
  • finding it “plausible that a consumer would place less 22 value on a product produced from a supply chain involving severe labor abuses,” even if the consumer does not allege that the particular product that she purchased was infected by the labor abuses

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Judges: Calabresi, Hon, Jacobs, Oakes

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