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In a week when Iowa Democrats showed off the best app since Clinkle, this also happened:

The state’s Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles ruled against Michelle Shaeffer, a diabetic who had bought a bottle of Cuties Juice at a supermarket, and said afterward she had been attracted by the label, which read, “100% Tangerine Juice, No Sugar Added.” Only later, she said, did she learn that other brands of tangerine juice were also sugar-free. So Shaeffer sued the manufacturer, Califia Farms, for false advertising and proposed a classaction suit on behalf of all U.S. consumers who had been similarly misled. She also accused Califia of violating a federal regulation that allows “no sugar added” on a food label only if “the food it resembles and for which it substitutes normally contains added sugars.” Nice try. A truthful statement on a food or beverage label can be considered deceptive, but only if a “reasonable consumer” is likely to believe that competing products would not fit the same description and are therefore inferior, the court ruled. A woman whose dog died during a grooming at a PetSmart store in New Jersey is apologizing for blaming the store for the death. Danielle DiNapoli dropped off her 8-year-old bulldog, Scruffles, for grooming in 2017. Within an hour, the store called her to say the dog had died. DiNapoli blamed the grooming staff for the death and started a Facebook page — “Justice for Scruffles” — but a necropsy determined that the death was caused by pre-existing health issues. PetSmart sued for defamation, saying DiNapoli deliberately withheld the report. PetSmart said DiNapoli had “engaged in a concerted, national smear campaign against the company,“adding that “we are glad that the facts came to light and that truth prevailed in this case.”

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, announced her engagement to Tom Bernthal, CEO of Kelton Global, a global marketing research and brand consulting agency.

Baker Katz