Gravel2Gavel Construction & Real Estate Law Blog
On June 4, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided the case of Hodsdon v. Mars, Inc., and affirmed the District Court’s dismissal of the plaintiff’s claims that, under California law (the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, the unfair competition law, Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 17200, et seq., and the false advertising law, Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 17500, et seq.), the defendant chocolate maker had a duty to disclose on its product labels that its goods were possibly being produced by child or slave labor.