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Civil Litigation,
California Courts of Appeal

Oct. 15, 2018

Appellate court stays Starbucks coffee labeling case on eve of civil penalties phase

An 11th hour stay by a state appellate court halted the long-running coffee cancer risk labeling case just as the civil penalties phase was set to begin.

Appellate court stays Starbucks coffee labeling case on eve of civil penalties phase
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An 11th-hour stay by a state appellate court halted the long-running coffee cancer risk labeling trial just as the civil penalties phase was set to begin Friday.

The brief order by the 2nd District Court of Appeal overturned Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle's ruling rejecting a motion by Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts to stop the third phase of trial for calculating nearly 10 years of civil penalties against coffee-...

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