United States Ninth Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's putative class action raising California state law claims and challenging the labeling of defendant's sunflower seed packages is reversed and remanded, where: 1) the sodium content of the edible coating added to sunflower seed shells must, under federal law, be included in the nutritional information disclosed on a package of sunflower seeds; and 2) because plaintiff's state-law claims, if successful, would impose no greater burden than those imposed by federal law, plaintiff's state law claims were not preempted.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/20/2014
• Published 02/20/2014

Judges

• SILVERMAN

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel