Mario's Butcher Shop & Food Center, Inc. v. Armour & Co.

MEMORANDUM ORDER

BUA, District Judge.

The plaintiffs brought the instant case in the Circuit Court of Cook County against Armour, Worthington, and Swift alleging that the defendants packaged and sold hog intestines as pork chitterlings, which plaintiffs purchased, in containers which were labeled as containing ten pounds of meat but which, in fact, contained a lesser quantity of meat. The two-count complaint charges that in so doing, defendants have violated the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Practices Act, Ill.Rev.Stat. ch. 12U/2, 11261 et seq. (1981), and the Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices…