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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

Johnnie Walker parent Diageo defeats false-labelling lawsuit over ‘100% agave’ tequilas

Washington: Diageo has persuaded a federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action alleging the spirits maker duped consumers by falsely labeling its Casamigos and Don Julio tequilas as "100% agave."

US District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall in Brooklyn said on Wednesday that the plaintiffs, a group of individual tequila buyers and restaurants, failed to show how they had been harmed. In their lawsuit, the plaintiffs claimed they paid higher prices for deceptively marketed tequila.

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