Dana

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS

Re: Dkt. No.

I. INTRODUCTION

“The use of child slave labor in the Ivory Coast is a humanitarian tragedy.” Doe I v. Nestle USA Inc., 766 F.3d 1013, 1016 (9th Cir.2014). The fact that major international corporations source ingredients for their products from supply chains involving slavery and the worst forms of child labor raises significant ethical questions. The issue before this Court, however, is whether California law requires corporations to inform customers of that fact on their product packaging and point of sale advertising. Every court to consider the issue has held that it does not. This Court agrees.

This is a putative class action in which Plaintiff Laura Dana claims that Defendants The Hershey Company and Hershey Chocolate & Confectionary .Corporation (collectively, “Hershey”) violated California’s Unfair Competition Law (“UCL,” Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 17200-17210 ), Consumers Legal Remedies Act (“CLRA,” Cal. Civ. Code §§ 1750-1784 ), and False Advertising Law (“FAL,” Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 17500-17509 ) by failing to disclose on the packaging of Hershey’s chocolate products that some of the cocoa used therein originated…