California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Thursday that bans new local taxes on sugary drinks through 2030, in order to stop what he called “an abomination” of a ballot initiative planned by the beverage industry to make it harder to pass soda taxes.
Read moreA federal judge in Missouri ruled that Dr. Pepper can’t dodge a class action claiming its Canada Dry Ginger Ale is not made with real ginger.
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A Dr. Pepper Snapple Group shareholder claims in court that the impending $18.7 billion acquisition of the beverage behemoth by specialty coffee company Keurig Green Mountain is tainted by the alleged withholding of crucial information about the deal.
Read moreJust months after the city of Seattle passed a tax on sugary drinks, health advocates and soda magnates are firing up efforts to influence Washington voters on similar taxes in the future.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit will rehear en banc whether San Francisco can force soda companies to attach black-box warning labels to certain ads, according to an order issued by the court’s chief judge on Monday.
Read moreThe board at Dr. Pepper Snapple Group agreed to a buyout by coffee giant Keurig, the companies revealed Monday, saying their combined annual sales are expected to top $11 billion.
Read moreThe European Court of Justice rejected a challenge Wednesday over competing bottles of tonic water in Spain, both of which are branded Schweppes.
Read moreCoca-Cola secured a key reversal Thursday in its years-long battle against a Syrian company with a strikingly similar soda logo.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss a copyright lawsuit over Pepsi’s time-traveling 2016 Super Bowl ad, allowing an advertising firm’s case to proceed to discovery.
Read moreGatorade made misleading “anti-water statements” while pushing the benefits of its sports drinks in a video game marketed to teenagers, according to a settlement announced Thursday by California’s attorney general.
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A three-judge Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday struck down an effort to force soda companies to affix black-box warning labels to certain types of ads, finding it “unduly burdened and chilled protected speech.”
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A European Court of Justice adviser said Tuesday that the Spanish subsidiary of tonic water giant Schweppes should be allowed to block the importation and marketing of Schweppes products from Britain, which are – unlike in Spain – bottled by Coca-Cola.
Read moreIllinois consumers took their outrage over Cook County’s new sweetened-beverage tax to court just a week after it took effect, accusing McDonald’s, 7-Eleven and Walgreens of applying the tax to unsweetened drinks and overtaxing sodas.
Read moreCook County’s new tax on sugary beverages will soon take effect after a state judge on Friday ended a month-long court battle to block it.
Read moreCook County defended its new sweetened-beverage tax in court Friday after it was put on hold three weeks ago, arguing against claims that it is unclear and does not apply uniformly to different types of drinks.
Read moreA federal class action claims that Dr Pepper Snapple Group’s Canada Dry Ginger Ale does not contain “real ginger,” as advertised.
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A Cook County judge put a temporary stop Friday to the county’s sweetened-beverage tax, which was set to take effect Saturday and would have hiked the price of sugary drinks by 50 percent.
Read moreIllinois retailers sued Cook County on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to block a hefty new tax on soda effective next month that will hike the price of sugary drinks by 50 percent.
Read moreSoda companies will probably be forced to pull their ads in San Francisco if the city forces them to include warning labels, an attorney for the American Beverage Association told a three-judge Ninth Circuit panel Monday.
Read moreCoca-Cola and the American Beverage Association engage in false, deceptive, Big Tobacco-like tactics to discredit the harmful effects of sugar-sweetened beverages, the health nonprofit Praxis Project claims in a federal lawsuit.
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