Another Unappetizing Class Action Ruling from The Food Court

Forbes Magazine ^ | 08/09/12 | Glenn G. Lammi

[AtlasStalled]

A past Washington Legal Foundation Legal Pulse post commented on the class action litigation exploits of California consumer Skye Astiana and her efforts to save Americans from “unnatural” products. One of the cases in which Ms. Astiana is a lead plaintiff, Astiana v. Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, survived a motion to dismiss recently, a development which underscores the havoc such lawsuit-by-lawsuit regulation can wreak on food packaging and marketing. The judge who authored the Astiana ruling sits on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, or as we’d like to call it, The Food Court.*

[beelzepug]

I’ll bet she has no squawk about Ben & Jerry’s, though.

[Carriage Hill]

Wonder if they ever got those carcinogenic levels of Dioxin (2,200 times greater than the level of dioxin allowed in wastewater discharged into San Francisco Bay from the nearby Tosco oil refinery) under control, in their ice cream?

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2000/08/38302?currentPage=all

[oh8eleven]

Interesting link to a story from the year 2000. Eight years later (July, 2008) there's this

Study Finds Unsafe Dioxin Levels In Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream
"A new study published Monday in Junkscience.com says unsafe levels of dioxin have been measured in a sample of Ben and Jerry's brand ice cream."

Apparently, Ben and Jerry's has not made much progress ... despite being quite progressive.

[cicero2k]

or as we’d like to call it, The Food Court.*

I get it.

[Carriage Hill]

They’re billionaires; they don’t give a crap. But 2,200x a measured, known sewage level of Dioxin, is *significant*. Where’s the FDA/EPA etc on that? Oh wait; they’re libs and 0bummer supporters, so they get a pass.

[oh8eleven]

2,200x a measured, known sewage level of Dioxin, is *significant*.
I got my dioxin fix in VN via AO, but was only there 13 months.
Nice to know the looney-left have been getting their "fair share" for at least eight years ... and counting.

[Carriage Hill]

I never liked or ate B&J’s stuff. Starbuck’s Coffee was my addiction. Gave it and other certain foods up, and lost 85-lbs in 4-mos. It has (much less) Dioxin too, as do all commercial ice creams and their cardboard containers.

[ApplegateRanch]

b...bu...but...but that labeling is on a product of interstate commerce; and the suit is pursuant to a state law. Doesn’t that Commerce Clause trump everything else, under Liberal dogma?

[ApplegateRanch]

Nice to know the looney-left have been getting their "fair share" for at least eight years ... and counting.

And the twofer is that they pay through the nose to eat that crap.

[Last of the Mohicans]

Federal courts regularly decide cases based upon the laws of the states. And since California has the broadest consumer protection laws, and since the Northern District is rather plaintiff friendly, that’s where the class actions get filed.