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Smokehouse Blue Diamond Almonds Litigated
in SDNY In Graham & BBQ Shadow
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- ESPN
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 18 – Blue Diamond
Growers has been sued for
calling its almonds
"Smokehouse" when they are
not, in fact, produced in a
smokehouse. They said, What
does it matter?
On February
18 U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge John P. Cronan held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
A distinction was
made with vanilla - a flavor,
not a structure, as Judge
Cronan put it - and also with
barbeque potato chips. The
defendants pointed out that
few think that BBQ chips are
in fact cooked on a
barbecue.
But what about
smokehouse? Inner City Press
live tweeted some of it, here:
Flavor of the
law: Blue Diamond Growers has
been sued for (mis?) using the
term "smokehouse." SDNY
Judge Cronan says, Vanilla is
a flavor, but smokehouse is a
structure. Company says
reaonsable consumers do not
read the "smokehouse"
literally. #nuts
"Smokehouse"
almond oral argument is still
going. Lawyer says that
barbeque potato chips are not,
in fact, cooked on a barbeque.
Judge Cronan: I'm trying to
get to the core, or kernel, of
the nut.
SDNY Judge Gregory H.
Woods recently made corporate
news with his analysis of the
Graham in Graham cracker. What
will Judge Cronan does with
the smokehouse?
The case is
Colpitts v. Blue Diamond
Growers, 20-cv-2487 (Cronan)
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