Back in January 2023, Aimen Halim bought an order of "boneless wings" at a Buffalo Wild Wings (BWW) outlet in Mount Prospect, Illinois. At the time, he claims, he assumed the product was composed of deboned chicken wing meat. But to his horror, he discovered that it was in fact made from chicken breast meat. That revelation resulted in a federal lawsuit that Halim filed against the chicken chain two months later, alleging breach of express warranty, common law fraud, and unjust enrichment.
When he dismissed that lawsuit on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp Jr. did not question Halim's claim of confusion about the nature of boneless wings. But even if Halim honestly thought he was getting a deboned version of BWW's "traditional" wings, Tharp says in his 10-page opinion, "his complaint has no meat on its bones," because "Halim does not plausibly allege that reasonable consumers are deceived by boneless wings."
