{"id":503821,"date":"2023-03-09T00:20:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T00:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dimensionturistica.com\/es\/?p=503821"},"modified":"2023-03-09T00:20:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T00:20:41","slug":"bumble-bee-walmart-class-actions-claim-companies-seafood-products-not-sustainable-as-advertised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dimensionturistica.com\/es\/bumble-bee-walmart-class-actions-claim-companies-seafood-products-not-sustainable-as-advertised\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumble Bee, Walmart class actions claim companies&#8217; seafood products not sustainable as advertised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"508\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Bumble Bee Seafoods building\" class=\"wp-image-1067988\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/s40123.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bumble-1024x508.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s40123.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bumble-420x208.jpg 420w, https:\/\/s40123.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bumble-768x381.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s40123.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bumble.jpg.optimal.jpg 1200w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/s40123.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bumble-1024x508.jpg\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"508\" src=\"https:\/\/s40123.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bumble-1024x508.jpg\" alt=\"Bumble Bee Seafoods building\" class=\"wp-image-1067988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s40123.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bumble-1024x508.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s40123.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bumble-420x208.jpg 420w, https:\/\/s40123.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bumble-768x381.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s40123.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bumble.jpg.optimal.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption>(Picture Credit score: Sherry V Smith\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bumble Bee, Walmart seafood merchandise class motion lawsuits overview:\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Who: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marissa Sanchez filed a category motion lawsuit towards Walmart Inc. whereas Abdallah Nasser, John Bohen, and Sanchez filed a separate class motion lawsuit towards Bumble Bee Meals LLC.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Why: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Walmart and Bumble Bee Meals are individually accused of falsely promoting that their seafood merchandise with a blue stamp certification from the Marine Stewardship Council are sustainably sourced. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif\">The place: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The category motion lawsuits have been independently filed in Illinois and California federal courts.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Walmart and Bumble Bee Meals falsely promote that seafood merchandise they manufacture and promote are sustainably sourced, a pair of latest class actions filed individually towards the businesses allege.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Plaintiff Marissa Sanchez claims Walmart \u201ccharges a premium\u201d for its frozen Nice Worth and Sam\u2019s Selection seafood merchandise because of its promise of the merchandise being \u201ccertified sustainable seafood.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sanchez argues Walmart\u2019s sustainability claims are backed up with a \u201cprominent certification\u201d within the type of a blue stamp from the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) that, in actuality, is just not legitimate proof of sustainable fishing practices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAs Walmart knew or should have known, MSC hands out this certification to those who use industrial fishing methods that injure marine life as well as ocean habitats with destructive fishing methods,\u201d the Walmart class motion states.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sanchez claims the MSC additionally will permit an organization to acquire certification by getting a paid membership, which she argues creates \u201ca potential conflict of interest.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDespite the MSC certification, Walmart sources its Products using fishing practices that indiscriminately harm ocean ecosystems,\u201d the Walmart class motion states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sanchez desires to characterize a nationwide class, an Illinois class, and a multi-state shopper fraud class of people who&#8217;ve bought Walmart seafood merchandise promoting that they&#8217;ve been sustainably sourced.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bumble Bee \u2018turns a blind eye\u2019 to unsustainable fishing practices, says class motion\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sanchez, together with Abdallah Nasser and John Bohen, filed a separate class motion lawsuit towards Bumble Bee over claims the corporate falsely marketed that sure of its seafood merchandise have been sustainably sourced.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nasser, Bohen, and Sanchez declare Bumble Bee makes use of a blue stamp certification from the MSC that \u201cdeceives and misleads reasonable consumers into believing the Products are sourced from sustainable fishing practices.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Regardless of the MSC certification, Nasser, Bohen, and Sanchez argue Bumble Bee \u201cturns a blind eye\u201d to \u201cunsustainable fishing practices\u201d they declare are used for sourcing its seafood merchandise that include the blue stamp.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDespite the MSC certification, Bumble Bee sources its Products using fishing practices that indiscriminately harm ocean ecosystems,\u201d the Bumble Bee class motion states.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nasser, Bohen, and Sanchez wish to characterize a nationwide class, California class, Illinois class, and Virginia class of customers who&#8217;ve bought Bumble Bee seafood merchandise which have an MSC blue stamp certification.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each the Bumble Bee and Walmart class motion lawsuits are requesting declaratory and injunctive reduction together with an award of financial, treble, statutory, and punitive damages for all class members.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Final October, a category motion lawsuit accusing main tuna producers of working collectively to repair costs within the tuna business was trimmed by a California federal decide who dominated a number of the claims both <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/topclassactions.com\/es\/lawsuit-settlements\/consumer-products\/food\/grocery-chains-seek-bellwether-status-in-massive-tuna-price-fixing-legislation\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>did not apply or failed under state laws<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Have you ever bought a Walmart or Bumble Bee seafood product with a MSC blue stamp certification? Tell us within the feedback!\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The plaintiffs are collectively represented by Pearson Warshaw, LLP, Kresch Authorized Companies PR, PLLC, and Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, LLP.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><b>Bumble Bee, Walmart seafood merchandise class motion lawsuits<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Sanchez, et al. v. Walmart Inc.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Case No. 1:23-cv-01297, within the U.S. District Court docket for the Northern District of Illinois and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nasser, et al. v. Bumble Bee Meals, LLC<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Case No. 2:23-cv-01558, within the U.S. District Court docket for the Central District of California.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n<p><strong>M\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n sobre demandas colectivas y acuerdos extrajudiciales:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"half-newsletter\">\n<h2>Le informamos sobre dinero en efectivo que puede reclamar \u00a1CADA SEMANA! Suscr\u00edbase a nuestro bolet\u00edn gratuito.<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source topclassactions.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Picture Credit score: Sherry V Smith\/Shutterstock) Bumble Bee, Walmart seafood merchandise class motion lawsuits overview:\u00a0 Who: Marissa Sanchez filed a category motion lawsuit towards Walmart Inc. whereas Abdallah Nasser, John Bohen, and Sanchez filed a separate class motion lawsuit towards Bumble Bee Meals LLC. Why: Walmart and Bumble Bee Meals are individually accused of falsely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gourmet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensionturistica.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensionturistica.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensionturistica.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensionturistica.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensionturistica.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dimensionturistica.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensionturistica.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensionturistica.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensionturistica.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensionturistica.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}