Overlawyered » labels http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:28:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 “Mom blames son’s death on air freshener” http://overlawyered.com/2009/12/mom-blames-sons-death-on-air-freshener/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/12/mom-blames-sons-death-on-air-freshener/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:05:28 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=15050 Why there’s a “Keep out of the reach of children” label on a can of Glade. [WAFB Baton Rouge, Louisiana]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2009/12/mom-blames-sons-death-on-air-freshener/feed/ 13 Suit demanding warnings on hot dogs http://overlawyered.com/2009/07/suit-demanding-warnings-on-hot-dogs/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/07/suit-demanding-warnings-on-hot-dogs/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:02:17 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=12456 The Newark Star-Ledger covers a publicity stunt by the animal-rights group that calls itself Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Patrick at Popehat engages in a bit of naming and shaming. Others to have written on the group in question include Newsweek in 2004 (”Less than 5 percent of PCRM’s members are physicians”), the American Council on Science and Health, and the food-industry-defense Center for Consumer Freedom.

P.S. L.A. Times gets the best line, from Susan Thatcher of Irvine: “Vegans complaining about hot dogs is like the Amish complaining about gas prices.”

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2009/07/suit-demanding-warnings-on-hot-dogs/feed/ 3 Milk. “Contains milk”. http://overlawyered.com/2009/03/milk-contains-milk/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/03/milk-contains-milk/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:41:11 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=10131 Flickr user IWouldStay (Creative Commons, some rights reserved) snapped this one on a milk jug in the U.K.: milkcontainsmilk

Related, earlier (chocolate milk).

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2009/03/milk-contains-milk/feed/ 6 CSPI: “Vitamin Water” not good for you http://overlawyered.com/2009/01/cspi-vitamin-water-not-good-for-you/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/01/cspi-vitamin-water-not-good-for-you/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:13:33 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=8447 Mike Cernovich thinks the plaintiff suing over the sugar-laden beverage might have spared himself a lot of trouble by, you know, reading the label.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2009/01/cspi-vitamin-water-not-good-for-you/feed/ 3 By reader acclaim: guacamole labeling suit http://overlawyered.com/2006/12/by-reader-acclaim-guacamole-labeling-suit/ http://overlawyered.com/2006/12/by-reader-acclaim-guacamole-labeling-suit/#comments Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:43:33 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4260 As its label discloses, Kraft Guacamole Dip hardly deserves the name, containing less than 2 percent avocado. The strategy of “read the label” was one that Brenda Lifsey of Los Angeles elected not to follow, nor did she content herself with the backstop strategy of “ask for your purchase price back and don’t buy the product again”. Instead, she’s filed a lawsuit seeking class-action status against the giant food company. And speaking of artificial ways of making green: “Lifsey has been a plaintiff in other lawsuits against large corporations,” including Sears and Carfax, over alleged misrepresentations of their products. (Jerry Hirsch, “Lawsuit stirs up guacamole labeling controversy”, L.A. Times/Chicago Tribune, Nov. 30).

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2006/12/by-reader-acclaim-guacamole-labeling-suit/feed/ 9 Great moments in food labeling law http://overlawyered.com/2006/11/great-moments-in-food-labeling-law/ http://overlawyered.com/2006/11/great-moments-in-food-labeling-law/#comments Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:42:37 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4194 From Wales:
A spicy sausage known as the Welsh Dragon will have to be renamed after trading standards’ officers warned the manufacturers that they could face prosecution because it does not contain dragon.

The sausages will now have to be labelled Welsh Dragon Pork Sausages to avoid any confusion among customers.

Jon Carthew, 45, who makes the sausages, said yesterday that he had not received any complaints about the absence of real dragon meat.

(Simon de Bruxelles, “Sausages affected by draconian trade laws”, Times Online, Nov. 18).

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