In re: GNC Corp. v.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• requiring “extrinsic evidence of actual consumer confusion” for a false advertising claim based on a misleading representation
• \[T]he considerable body of federal common law construing the Act is instructive in construing the state laws at issue here.\
• a representation is not literally false under the UCL and the CLRA if “the scientific evidence is equivocal”
• “[W]e need not decide today whether any of the representations made on the [defendants’] products are misleading, because Plaintiffs chose not to include such allegations in the [complaint].”
• “When litigants concede that some reasonable and duly qualified scientific experts agree with a scientific proposition, they cannot also argue that the proposition is ‘literally false.’”
• “Rule 60 does not authorize motions for correction of a mistake of law”

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Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sonner v. Schwabe N. Am., Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 2018-12-26· cited 293×
• JoAnn Britt v. Louis DeJoy
  Fourth Circuit· 2022-08-17· cited 254×
• Mullins v. Premier Nutrition Corp.
  N.D. California· 2016-04-15· cited 20×
• Blitz v. Monsanto Co.
  W.D. Wisconsin· 2018-04-13· cited 18×
• Handsome Brook Farm, LLC v. Humane Farm Animal Care, Inc.
  E.D. Virginia· 2016-06-15· cited 14×
• In re Riddell Concussion Reduction Litigation
  D. New Jersey· 2015-08-03· cited 6×
• Yeldo v. MusclePharm Corp.
  E.D. Michigan· 2017-11-16· cited 4×
• Beyond Pesticides v. Monsanto Co.
  D.C. Circuit· 2018-04-30· cited 4×
• State ex rel Rosenblum v. Living Essentials, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2024-09-18· cited 2×
• Taylor v. Brooks
  Fourth Circuit· 2015-12-22· cited 1×
• Kathleen Sonner v. Schwabe North America
  Ninth Circuit· 2018-12-26
• JoAnn Britt v. Louis DeJoy
  Fourth Circuit· 2022-09-14
• Torkornoo v. Torkornoo
  Fourth Circuit· 2015-07-23
• Tyler v. Virginia Department of Corrections
  Fourth Circuit· 2015-12-18

Cites

29 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ashcroft v. Iqbal
  Supreme Court· 2009-05-18· cited 149,772×
• Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
  Supreme Court· 2007-05-21· cited 146,720×
• Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-28· cited 21,376×
• Griggs v. Provident Consumer Discount Co.
  Supreme Court· 1982-11-29· cited 2,910×
• Lexmark Int'l, Inc. v. Static Control Components, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2014-03-25· cited 2,704×
• Guggenheimer v. Ginzburg
  New York Court of Appeals· 1977-12-15· cited 1,612×
• Domino Sugar Corporation v. Sugar Workers Local Union 392 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, an Unincorporated Association
  Fourth Circuit· 1993-11-30· cited 988×
• Bizzie Walters v. Todd McMahen
  Fourth Circuit· 2012-07-05· cited 800×
• Roman Zak v. Chelsea Therapeutics International
  Fourth Circuit· 2015-03-16· cited 672×
• Stutman v. Chemical Bank
  New York Court of Appeals· 2000-05-18· cited 415×
• Crawford v. Franklin Credit Management Corp.
  Second Circuit· 2014-07-11· cited 381×
• Oliveira v. Amoco Oil Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2002-06-20· cited 287×
• Ophelia De'Lonta v. Gene Johnson
  Fourth Circuit· 2013-01-28· cited 268×
• Cooper v. Smith & Nephew, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 2001-07-09· cited 260×
• Castrol Inc. v. Pennzoil Company and Pennzoil Products Company
  Third Circuit· 1993-03-03· cited 247×
• United States v. Michael D. Williams
  Fourth Circuit· 1982-03-31· cited 239×
• Manahawkin Convalescent v. Frances O'neill (071033)
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2014-03-11· cited 221×
• Koch v. ACKER, MERRALL & CONDIT COMPANY
  New York Court of Appeals· 2012-03-27· cited 215×
• Chao v. Rivendell Woods, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 2005-07-19· cited 214×
• Southland Sod Farms v. Stover Seed Co.
  Ninth Circuit· 1997-03-11· cited 197×