{"id":130,"date":"2023-10-24T14:58:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T18:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/pfas\/?p=130"},"modified":"2023-10-24T14:58:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T18:58:59","slug":"class-action-suit-alleging-deceptive-marketing-of-pfas-containing-mascaras-dismissed-in-new-york-federal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/pfas\/2023\/10\/24\/class-action-suit-alleging-deceptive-marketing-of-pfas-containing-mascaras-dismissed-in-new-york-federal-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Action Suit Alleging Deceptive Marketing of PFAS-Containing Mascaras Dismissed in New York Federal Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 30, 2023, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed a putative class action in which plaintiffs claimed they would not have purchased or paid a premium price for certain waterproof mascaras had they known of the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (\u201cPFAS\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>In a 22-page opinion, the court held that plaintiffs failed to sufficiently allege that the mascaras they individually purchased actually contained PFAS, or that there was a material risk that they did; thus, plaintiffs could not establish an actual injury.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this blog post by Duane Morris attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/kellyabonner.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kelly Bonner<\/a>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/fashionretailbrandedconsumergoods\/2023\/10\/24\/new-york-federal-court-dismisses-putative-class-action-suit-alleging-deceptive-marketing-of-pfas-containing-mascaras\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit the <em>Duane Morris Fashion,\u00a0 Retail and Consumer Branded Products Blog<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 30, 2023, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed a putative class action in which plaintiffs claimed they would not have purchased or paid a premium price for certain waterproof mascaras had they known of the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (\u201cPFAS\u201d). In a 22-page opinion, the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/pfas\/2023\/10\/24\/class-action-suit-alleging-deceptive-marketing-of-pfas-containing-mascaras-dismissed-in-new-york-federal-court\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Class Action Suit Alleging Deceptive Marketing of PFAS-Containing Mascaras Dismissed in New York Federal Court&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[93,43,77,94],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-class-action","tag-cosmetics","tag-kelly-bonner","tag-mascara"],"authors":[{"term_id":5,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/pfas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/pfas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/pfas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/pfas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/pfas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/pfas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/pfas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/pfas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/pfas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/pfas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}