CRA was retained to assess claims of misleading “all-natural” beverage product claims. In particular, CRA provided assessments of methods to determine alleged affects on pricing and sales apart from brand value and other information conveyed in the product’s label. In particular, CRA demonstrated that the introduction of such labels had no bearing on manufacturer pricing and was not associated with a price premium relative to other similar consumer products.
Calculating damages in IEEPA tariff refund litigation
But it did not resolve a harder question: Who bore their economic cost? That distinction is now driving two parallel waves of private litigation: commercial...