Action-Snacked Year: Food Labeling Class Actions On The Rise

Consumer class action lawsuits targeting foods for alleged false and misleading labeling rose sharply in 2020. Although this trend may appear to threaten the food and beverage industry, courts are applying the “reasonable consumer” standard with a “real world” perspective, dismissing cases despite plaintiffs’ alleged subjective confusion about the labeling at issue because the hypothetical “reasonable consumer” would not have been misled.

Blockchain’s Promising Future in Battling Counterfeit Luxury Goods

Luxury brands spend copious amounts of time, money, and resources to protect their brands, trademarks, and intellectual property. But even so, the counterfeit market keeps growing, and annual losses from counterfeit goods reach well into the billions. Leading luxury retailers are now turning to blockchain technologies in an effort to douse the flames. By providing accurate, transparent, and verified data directly to consumers, blockchain might allow luxury brands to radically change the playing field.

The Antitrust Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a trailblazer on so many fronts. Her well-earned nickname “notorious RBG” is usually synonymous with gender equality, civil rights, and equal justice under the law. Her mark on the law is certainly indelible, and what she stood for as the second female Justice on the Court, (one who was deemed unworthy of any law firm job despite graduating first in her class from Columbia Law School) maybe even more so. But one area of the law in which her opinions in a most prolific career are rare, is that of antitrust.