LOS ANGELES –(Jan. 30, 2011) –Baron and Budd announced Monday that it has filed a deceptive advertising lawsuit against Cytosport Inc., the makers of Muscle Milk brand products. The suit claims that Cytosport intentionally mislabels its Muscle Milk products as healthy workout supplements that will help consumers lose weight. The suit states, however, that some [...]
LOS ANGELES — Baron and Budd has filed a class action lawsuit claiming that Alexia Foods misrepresents its products as "All Natural" when they actually contain synthetic chemicals. The claim states that Alexia Foods, a ConAgra brand, intentionally misleads customers by making false statements about its food that violate state and federal laws. Alexia places [...]
Baron and Budd Proud To Support ADAO’s Work With McQueen DALLAS (January 17, 2012) –The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) will be honoring the late actor Steve McQueen with the Warren Zevon “Keep Me in Your Heart” Memorial Tribute Award. Though McQueen is known as a legend of the silver screen, he passed away in [...]
LeBlanc Is Only Louisiana Environmental Plaintiffs’ Attorney Selected For Honor BATON ROUGE, La. (January 6, 2011) –Burton LeBlanc, the head of Baron and Budd’s Baton Rouge office, is one of only six environmental attorneys selected to the 2012 list of Louisiana Super Lawyers, and the only environmental plaintiffs’ attorney. LeBlanc was recognized in the January [...]
Dallas Jury Finds Hercules, Inc. Liable For Exposing Worker To Asbestos Pipe DALLAS (January 3, 2012) – A Dallas County jury recently awarded an $8.4 million verdict to a mesothelioma cancer patient’s widow after finding Ashland, Inc. subsidiary, Hercules, Inc., liable for the patient’s mesothelioma, a deadly cancer of the lining of the lung caused by [...]
Proposed Settlement Could Assist 4,500 Homeowners with Defective Drywall NEW ORLEANS (December 15, 2011) – Baron and Budd shareholder Bruce Steckler was part of the team that helped negotiate a landmark Chinese drywall settlement with KNAUF Plasterboard Tianjin (KPT), one of the largest manufacturers in the Chinese drywall litigation. The settlement comes as a result [...]
