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Civil Litigation

Nov. 10, 2020

No coffee warning labels for now despite appeal, judge rules

“Given this matter is going to be appealed shortly, it would be confusing to the public to have off again, on again warnings to the public,” said the plaintiff’s attorney, Scott P. Brust of the Metzger Law Group. “There is a very real possibility of confusion by the public in having warnings given and then no longer given, then to have the warning reinstated.”

LOS ANGELES -- Coffee sellers do not need to post warning signs in front of stores, a judge ruled Monday, granting a motion to modify a recent judgment in Starbucks' favor that found the chemical acrylamide does not cause cancer.

After a decade-long court battle, Los Angeles County Judge Elihu M. Berle sided with Starbucks and other coffee producers and retailers in ...

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