Law Students

Litigation filling in a chocolaty coating
A Connecticut chocolate eater is suing the world's major chocolate manufacturers in a Texas federal court, alleging that several major chocolate makers have formed an international cartel "to fix, raise, maintain, and/or stabilize prices of chocolate in the worldwide chocolate...

More Evidence of Benefits of Chocolate for Pregnant Women
Reuters: Chocolate may reduce pregnancy complication risk: NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Indulging in chocolate during pregnancy could help ward off a serious complication known as preeclampsia, new research suggests...

The chocolate smugglers
Apparently dogs and drug tests aren’t always reliable. Who knew? The drug-sniffing dogs were coming. They knew they were in trouble again ? for carrying chocolate. Even with their certified letter from the Department of Justice, which clearly outlined the organic chocolate they were carting across the U...

"There is no product on the planet that can match that lush, melted-chocolate mouth-feel of milk chocolate."
Are you a dark-chocolate snob or are dark-chocolate snobs just making you feel that you shouldn't want what you really want? Get over it!

Probably the saddest story you're going to read today
Indiana police find an 8-year-old autistic boy living in a hovel with his mother. He's never been to school, the doctor or a dentist -- which is too bad because he apparently has existed exclusively on chocolate: chocolate pudding, chocolate...

More News on Chocolate . . .
Slate.com's Medical Examiner's "Your Health This Week" column concerns whether chocolate is bad for women's bones. (Yikes - say it isn't so!) Slate reports: Question: One of the plusses of chocolate is that it contains materials called flavonoids...

Hershey Co. et al.
allegedly involved in a chocolate price fixing scheme.

Family Law
involving divorce, child custody, spousal support, common law, adoption and same sex marriage.

Chocolate Discharge
G.K.I. Foods agrees to $43,000 settlement after disposing production waste water into a sanitary waste water system.

Media/Telecom
consumer rights involving print, radio, television, video, DVD, video games, and mobile telephones.

Internet/Technology
involving cyber law, consumer protection, internet crime, internet fraud, online gambling, e-commerce.

Food/Supplements
involving food poisoning, food product recalls, false advertising or labeling, vitamin, weight loss and diet supplement issues.