Celiac.com 06/17/2019 - A federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit filed by a boy with celiac disease against a Colonial Williamsburg restaurant. The court ruled that a jury should decide whether the restaurant violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when they barred a boy from bringing his gluten-free meal into the Shields Tavern.
The lawsuit lists the boy's name as J.D. Because J.D. has celiac disease and follows a strict gluten-free diet, he couldn't eat with his classmates on their May 11, 2017, field trip. The staff at the Shields Tavern told J.D. that they could make a gluten-free meal for him,  but they could not allow him to eat his own food in the tavern, which is owned and operated by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
J.D. had had problems before with ...

Celiac.com 03/15/2022 - A lawsuit filed in Missouri accuses food retailer Frickenschmidt Foods of mislabeling products as gluten-free, when they actually contain gluten. The suit accuses Frickenschmidt of labeling its Wicked Cutz Teriyaki Beef Stick as gluten-free, despite the fact that, according to plaintiff Oluwakemi Adewol, the product does contain gluten.
The plaintiff seeks declaratory, injunctive and monetary relief, including punitive damages and “restitution and disgorgement,” herself and “all others similarly situated," on behalf of three separate classes of product purchasers:  a “Multi-State Consumer Class” that includes California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts,  Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Oregon, and Washington; a specific ...

Celiac.com 04/30/2024 - Inmate Daniel Phoenix filed a lawsuit against Virginia prison officials, including Dr. Paul Ohai and Dr. Mark Amonette, alleging deliberate indifference to his celiac disease. Initially, the district court denied summary judgment to Ohai and Amonette on Phoenix's Eighth Amendment claim. Around the same time that the case was set for mediation, it was transferred to a different district court judge. After mediation failed, the new judge set a date for a jury trial.
Before trial, however, the district court excluded Phoenix’s experts because Phoenix did not timely submit expert reports. It then granted summary judgment to Ohai, concluding Phoenix could not prove his claim without an expert to testify about the “threshold standard of care or on the presence of ...

Celiac.com 08/13/2024 - Gluten Free Watchdog, an advocacy site for people with celiac disease, recently responded to a study by Moms Across America, which claimed that Trader Joe's Everything Gluten-Free Bagels contained nearly 300 ppm of gluten—a controversy that has already led to a class action lawsuit against Trader Joe's. 
The gluten testing was performed by Health Research Institute (HRI), an ISO17025 accredited lab approved by the FDA, and examined 46 products, including 32 GFCO-certified ones. It found that nearly 15% of the certified products exceeded the 10 ppm gluten-free standard, with nearly 10% surpassing the FDA's 20 ppm gluten-free limit, meaning they cannot be labeled gluten-free and should be subject to a product recall. A recent analysis by Celiac.com uncovered pote...