
Blue Diamond Smokehouse Almonds
Allegations: Misleadingly marketing products as “Smokehouse Almonds”
Colpitts et al v. Blue Diamond Growers
20-cv-2487, S.D.N.Y.
(March 2020)
Blue Diamond Growers Smokehouse Almonds
Misleadingly marketing that the flavor in products comes from being smoked over a fire of wood chips when the smoke flavor comes from an added ingredient (“Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor”)
Summary judgment granted in favor of Blue Diamond Growers
Allegations: Misleadingly marketing products as “Smokehouse Almonds”
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