{"id":4552,"date":"2025-03-07T15:20:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/federal-judge-closes-the-door-to-microplastics-suit-against-fiji-water\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T15:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:20:28","slug":"federal-judge-closes-the-door-to-microplastics-suit-against-fiji-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/federal-judge-closes-the-door-to-microplastics-suit-against-fiji-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Closes the Door to Microplastics Suit Against Fiji Water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Bringing a consumer protection suit to a grinding halt, a federal judge in Illinois this week dismissed a putative class action targeting Fiji Water&#8217;s parent company and its alleged misrepresentations that the product is &#8220;natural.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.alm.com\/4f\/cf\/59b509a94bde94b1b3430888400b\/show-temp-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Monday opinion<\/a>, U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly for the Northern District of Illinois granted The Wonderful Co.&#8217;s motion to dismiss a putative class action claiming Fiji Water is misrepresented as &#8220;natural&#8221; because it contains microplastics. Kennelly determined the plaintiffs didn&#8217;t have standing to bring the suit, finding their allegations were insufficient to give rise to a plausible claim for relief. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bringing a consumer protection suit to a grinding halt, a federal judge in Illinois this week dismissed a putative class action targeting Fiji Water&#8217;s parent company and its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4960,3969,554,4962,423,4961,339,1251],"class_list":["post-4552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-closes","tag-door","tag-federal","tag-fiji","tag-judge","tag-microplastics","tag-suit","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}