Judge Dismisses Juice Company’s Suit Alleging Fraud Before Asset Sale

(May 14, 2024, 1:04 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge granted a food production company’s motion to dismiss a complaint accusing it of fraud by allegedly making phony sales to improve its performance records before the sale of certain assets to a juice company, finding that the plaintiff’s fraud-related claims including for violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) were not pleaded with sufficient specificity....