by Joel Rothman | Feb 16, 2009 | NutriSupLaw
A swimmer who missed the Olympics says she doesn’t have a drug problem: A Texas supplement company does. Jessica Hardy claims in a lawsuit that AdvoCare International Co. caused her to be disqualified from the U.S. team because the products Arginine Extreme and...
by Joel Rothman | Feb 1, 2009 | NutriSupLaw
Tahitian Noni, the Utah based dietary supplement juice maker, has sued former MLM executive Robert Dean who allegedly jumped ship to work for a competitor. Tahitian Noni won a partial victory in a decision entered in federal district court in Utah. The court...
by Joel Rothman | Jan 18, 2009 | NutriSupLaw
In the conclusion to the FTC’s follow-up action against Kevin Trudeau for making deceptive claims about his books, a federal judge has ordered Trudeau to pay more than $37 million for violating a 2004 stipulated order by misrepresenting the content of his book,...
by Joel Rothman | Jan 16, 2009 | NutriSupLaw
A federal district court has ordered the marketers of three dietary supplements (Thermalean, Lipodrene, and Spontane-ES) to pay more than $15 million for deceiving consumers about the products’ safety and effectiveness. The court imposed the final monetary judgment...
by Joel Rothman | Jan 13, 2009 | NutriSupLaw
The baseball players blame the manufacturer. The league blames the players. Who is accountable when a professional athlete takes a banned substance supposedly without knowing it? Major League players J.C. Romero and Sergio Mitre say they unwittingly consumed...