POM Wonderful LLC v. Coca-Cola Co.

POM Wonderful LLC v. Coca-Cola Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 21, 2014 Decided June 12, 2014
Full case name	POM Wonderful LLC v. The Coca-Cola Company
Docket no.	12-761
Citations	573 U.S. 102 (more) 134 S. Ct. 2228; 189 L. Ed. 2d 141
Argument	Oral argument
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Case history
Prior	679 F.3d 1170 (May 17, 2012), cert. granted, 571 U. S. 1118 (2014)
Holding
Reversed and remanded. Neither the Lanham Act nor the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, in express terms, forbids or limits private Lanham Act claims challenging labels that are regulated by the other Act.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinion
Majority	Kennedy, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Ginsburg, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan
Breyer took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. § 1125) Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. § 341, 21 U.S.C. § 343, 21 CFR 102.33)

POM Wonderful LLC v. Coca-Cola Co., 573 U.S. 102 (2014), was a United States Supreme Court case that held that a statutory private right of action under the Lanham Act is not precluded by regulatory provisions of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.^[1]