Hain Celestial Group and JĀSÖN Natural Products

April 2016: The parties agreed to dismiss this action When a complaint is dismissed with prejudice, it cannot be refiled..

March 2016: The parties notified the court that they reached a settlement. The terms have not been disclosed. (Astiana et al v. The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. et al, Case No. 11-cv-6342, N. D. CA.)

April 2015: An appellate judge reversed a district court’s dismissal of a false advertising class-action lawsuit against The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. and JĀSÖN Natural Products, Inc. and sent the case back to federal court. The complaint, which was originally filed in 2011, alleges that the companies misleadingly label cosmetics as natural when they actually contain artificial and synthetic ingredients. Among other things, the appellate judge found that the district court properly invoked primary jurisdiction (i.e., a judicial doctrine where a court defers to an agency and allows the agency to decide an issue first), but the court did not consider whether the parties would be “unfairly disadvantaged” by a dismissal rather than a stay. (Astiana et al v. The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. and JĀSÖN Natural Products, Inc., Case No. 12-17596, 9th Cir.)

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