U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
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'Not all rights are entitled to protection': Judge rejects challenge to NYC vax orders
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – New York City restaurants have lost a key ruling in their fight against Mayor Bill de Blasio’s orders that they boot customers who have not been vaccinated for COVID-19. -
NBA agent can't sue rival who lured Mitchell Robinson with pickup truck
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – Tossing in a brand-new pickup truck to poach an NBA prospect from another agent does not give the spurned agent a reason to sue. -
Canada Goose faces lawsuit over down in jackets
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - A class action lawsuit takes aim at the way Canada Goose describes the down in its clothing products. -
New York City sued by food delivery companies over cap on what they can charge
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Food delivery companies are suing New York City over price controls on orders. -
Multivitamins lack 'essential' vitamins, class action says
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - A class action lawsuit against SmartyPants alleges the company's multivitamins are not all they're cracked up to be. -
Judge permits lawsuit from people who expected tequila in Lime-A-Ritas
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – Class action lawyers who sued Anheuser-Busch because Lime-A-Ritas don’t actually contain tequila have lost three of their four claims. -
Netflix, Ava DuVernay can't escape defamation lawsuit over When They See Us
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – Linda Fairstein, the longtime head of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Sex Crimes Unit who oversaw the prosecution of the “Central Park Five,” has plausibly alleged defamation by a critically acclaimed Netflix series. -
Judge doesn't take blind expert's word for it
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – One of the thousands of companies facing a lawsuit from a blind plaintiff tried using a visually impaired expert of its own to show its website was accessible, but that strategy was rejected by a New York federal judge. -
Illinois man brings suit against rum maker for fraud
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - An Illinois man claims a rum company is committing fraud by labeling the age of its product wrong. -
Class action lawsuit: Apple misleads consumers in iPhone water resistance capabilities
A federal class action lawsuit against Apple accuses the tech giant of being misleading in its smartphone water resistance marketing. -
AstraZeneca sued by shareholders over COVID-19 vaccine
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – The retirement system for public employees in a Michigan county is the lead plaintiff in a shareholder lawsuit against AstraZeneca over its difficulties in creating a COVID-19 vaccine. -
Lawsuit says there should be only two ingredients in chocolate-covered fruit
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – There’s more to chocolate-covered fruit than the front of the package says, a class action lawsuit alleges. -
Law firm accused of altering investors' rights agreement
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Faber Daeufer & Irato was sued for breach of fiduciary duty in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on April 2. -
Honest Tea is 'just a tad sweet' but a lawsuit claims there's too much sugar
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – A New York man has filed a class action against Coca-Cola alleging its Honest Tea products are packaged to deceive and defraud customers regarding sugar content and calories. -
Trader Joe's disguises the sugar content in its corn flake cereal, consumer alleges
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – Trader Joe's is facing a suit over allegations it is misleading customers by disguising the sugar content in its brand of Organic Corn Flakes cereal as evaporated cane juice. -
Lawsuit questions vanilla flavoring of almond milk
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – A New York woman has instituted a class action against The Price Chopper alleging its almond milk products are falsely labeled as vanilla flavored. -
M&M ice cream makes false statements about its vanilla, lawsuit says
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – A New York woman has initiated a proposed class action lawsuit against Mars alleging the labels on its vanilla M&M ice cream bar products don't reflect the true amount of vanilla flavor in the ice cream. -
Lawsuit: JetBlue does not disclose its financial stake in third-party travel insurance purchases
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – A Rockland County woman alleges JetBlue is deceiving its customers who purchased travel insurance policies by not disclosing the company's financial interest in the policy sales. -
Man claims Moran Food's vanilla ice cream products sold at Save-A-Lot stores have misleading labels
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – A New York man has initiated a class action lawsuit against a food manufacturer claiming its vanilla ice cream products sold through Save-A-Lot grocery stores contain flavor from "non-vanilla sources" and are misleadingly represented. -
There's a lawsuit because Universal Studios only lets visitors refill sodas six times each hour
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – NBC Universal is facing a class action lawsuit from a New York man who claims his Coca-Cola Freestyle Souvenir Cup purchased at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, did not give him unlimited refills as advertised.