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By John O'Brien
May 19, 2023
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) - One class action lawyer will likely be looking to avoid the courtroom of a certain Chicago federal judge who just tossed another one of his many lawsuits with a strongly worded ruling that could lead to financial penalties.
Judge Steven Seeger on May 15 dismissed a lawsuit alleging customers who purchased Walmart's olive oil mayonnaise were cheated because it didn't contain as much olive oil as they expected.
His ruling came four days after throwing out Spencer Sheehan's lawsuit that alleged caramel Nips hard candies didn't contain enough milkfat. Seeger promised in that case to keep an eye on Sheehan, should he file more of his consumer deception cases in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
And Seeger had also dismissed a lawsuit over the lemon in Polar Corp.'s bubble water in March.
"In each case, the plaintiff unsuccessfully alleged that the product misled consumers because they expected it to contain more than a de minimis amount of an ingredient advertised on the label. The same attorney filed each case," Seeger wrote in his olive oil decision.
"The case at hand is yet another spin on an increasingly unpleasant ride. It is time for the carousel to come to a halt."...
By John O'Brien
May 19, 2023
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) - One class action lawyer will likely be looking to avoid the courtroom of a certain Chicago federal judge who just tossed another one of his many lawsuits with a strongly worded ruling that could lead to financial penalties.
Judge Steven Seeger on May 15 dismissed a lawsuit alleging customers who purchased Walmart's olive oil mayonnaise were cheated because it didn't contain as much olive oil as they expected.
His ruling came four days after throwing out Spencer Sheehan's lawsuit that alleged caramel Nips hard candies didn't contain enough milkfat. Seeger promised in that case to keep an eye on Sheehan, should he file more of his consumer deception cases in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
And Seeger had also dismissed a lawsuit over the lemon in Polar Corp.'s bubble water in March.
"In each case, the plaintiff unsuccessfully alleged that the product misled consumers because they expected it to contain more than a de minimis amount of an ingredient advertised on the label. The same attorney filed each case," Seeger wrote in his olive oil decision.
"The case at hand is yet another spin on an increasingly unpleasant ride. It is time for the carousel to come to a halt."...