Hohenberg v. Ferrero USA, Inc

Filing 126

RESPONSE re 124 Objection, 123 Objection, Defendant Ferrero U.S.A., Inc.'s Response to Objections filed by Ferrero USA, Inc. (Attachments: # 1 Declaration Dale R. Bish, # 2 Exhibit A to Declaration of Dale R. Bish, # 3 Exhibit B to Declaration of Dale R. Bish, # 4 Proof of Service)(Bish, Dale) (ag).

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1 2 3 4 5 KEITH E. EGGLETON, State Bar No. 159842 COLLEEN BAL, State Bar No. 167637 DALE R. BISH, State Bar No. 235390 AMIR STEINHART, State Bar No. 275037 WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI Professional Corporation 650 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304-1050 Telephone: (650) 493-9300 Facsimile: (650) 565-5100 6 7 Attorneys for Defendant FERRERO U.S.A, INC. 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 In re FERRERO LITIGATION 12 13 14 15 16 17 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) CASE NO.: 11 CV 0205 H DECLARATION OF DALE R. BISH IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANT FERRERO U.S.A., INC.’S RESPONSE TO OBJECTIONS Date: July 9, 2012 Time: 9:00 a.m. Before: Hon. Marilyn L. Huff 18 19 20 I, Dale R. Bish, declare as follows: 1. I am an attorney admitted to practice law in the State of California and before this 21 Court. I am an associate at the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, attorneys for 22 Defendant Ferrero U.S.A., Inc. (“Ferrero”) in this matter. 23 24 25 26 2. I have personal knowledge of the facts stated herein and, if called upon to testify thereon as a witness, could and would do so. 3. I conducted searches for news articles and publicity regarding the settlement of this action. Specifically, I used the search terms, “Nutella and Settlement” in the Google online 27 28 DECL. OF DALE R. BISH ISO FERRERO U.S.A., INC.’S RESPONSE TO OBJECTIONS Case No. 11-CV-00205 H 1 search engine (www.google.com). That search returned approximately 183,000 results. True 2 and correct printouts of the first 10 pages of those results are attached hereto as Exhibit A. 4. 3 The search described above returned articles on news sites, including ABC News, 4 CBS News, Forbes, Reuters, National Public Radio, the Huffington Post, the Christian Science 5 Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, the LA Weekly, the New York Daily News, CNet and Business 6 Week.1 True and correct copies of these articles are attached hereto as Exhibit B. 5. 7 The search also returned video news segments from ABC’s Good Morning 8 America (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/04/nutella-consumer-class-action- 9 settlement), NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams (http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly- 10 news/47211797), and Fox News (http://video.foxnews.com/v/1613698340001/nutella-to-pay- 11 35m-after-nutrition-lawsuit/). 6. 12 13 The settlement was also described in blog sites, including the Consumerist.com, AboveTheLaw.com and TopClassActions.com.2 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 1 As of July 2, these news articles were available at the following internet address: ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/04/nutella-after-suit-drops-health-claims/); CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57423319-10391704/nutella-healthclaims-net-$3.05-million-settlement-in-class-action-lawsuit); Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/sites/wlf/ 2012/01/31/nutella-class-action-settlement-not-part-of-a-balanced-legal-system/); Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/29/italy-nutella-idUSL5E8FT1DU20120429); National Public Radio (http://www.npr.org/blogs/ thesalt/2012/04/26/151454929/nutella-maker-may-settle-deceptive-ad-lawsuit-for-3-million); Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/26/nutella-lawsuit_n_1457183.html); Christian Science Monitor (http://www.csmonitor.com/ Business/new-economy/2012/0427/Nutella-settles-lawsuit.-You-can-get-20); the Chicago Tribune (http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-05-08/news/ct-edit-nutella20120505_1_nutella-breakfast-jar); LA Weekly (http://blogs.laweekly. com/squidink/2012/04/nutella_settles_lawsuit_over_h.php); New York Daily News (http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-04-26/news/31413502_1_nutella-health-food-ferrero); CNet (http://shopper.cnet.com/2740-19233_9-82000.html); Business Week (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-21/snack-attack-moms-take-on-nutella-fruitroll-ups). 2 Consumerist (http://consumerist.com/2012/04/theres-actually-a-settlement-in-nutellahealth-food-class-action-lawsuit.html); AboveTheLaw (http://abovethelaw. com/2012/05/morning-docket-05-01-12/); TopClassActions (http://www. topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news/1745-nutella-class-action-settlement). 27 28 DECL. OF DALE R. BISH ISO FERRERO U.S.A., INC.’S RESPONSE TO OBJECTIONS Case No. 11-CV-00205 H 1 2 7. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed in Palo Alto, California on July 2, 2012. 3 4 Dated: July 2, 2012 By: /s/ Dale R. Bish Dale R. Bish 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 DECL. OF DALE R. BISH ISO FERRERO U.S.A., INC.’S RESPONSE TO OBJECTIONS Case No. 11-CV-00205 H

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