Legal Opinion
Tylka v. Gerber Products Co.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided March 3, 1998No. 96 C 1647PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
NORGLE, District Judge.
Before the court is Plaintiffs’ Motion for Class Certification. For the following reasons, Plaintiffs’ motion is granted in part and denied in part.
I. BACKGROUND
In the Spring of 1995, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (“CSPI”), an advocacy group that opposes, among other things, the use of starches and sugars in food products, issued a report that was highly critical of the baby food products manufactured and distributed by Defendant Gerber Products Company (“Gerber”). CSPI then requested that the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) take…
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