Consumer Law
Mar. 25, 2024
Tootsie Roll uses 'slack fill' to defraud customers, suit claims
The case involving Blow Pops Minis is one of many in Los Angeles County Superior Court that claim food and beverage companies leave empty space in containers for fraudulent reasons.
How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop? The world may never know, as the company’s famous television ad said, but data from the Los Angeles County Superior Court shows it may take 485 days to take the company to trial over its packaging.
A judge on Friday overruled Tootsie Roll Industries’ demurrer to a “slack fill” case filed by Pacific Trial Attorneys on Nov. 9, 2023 and set trial for March 18, 20...
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