Bags of potato chips are often far bigger than they need to be for the product they contain.Irina Marwan/Getty Images Slack-fill describes the empty space in a packet, such as the air in a bag of ...

(CN) — A federal judge in California on Tuesday advanced a class action against a protein powder manufacturer claiming that the company deliberately misleads consumers about the amount of product in ...

Empty space in food packaging, known as slack-fill, is increasingly becoming grounds for deceptive-advertising litigation. But advertising and marketing attorneys say there are ways to minimize ...

In a recent post about the rise in so-called “slack-fill” litigation, we discussed a California district court’s dismissal of a highly publicized lawsuit in which the plaintiff claimed that Starbucks’ ...

Meghana Shah and Melissa Conrad-Alam of Eversheds Sutherland (US) write: Early slack fill complaints have been met with resistance. Courts have dismissed many complaints out of hand for failure to ...

In a deep sea of consumer fraud and deceptive packaging litigation, glimpses of reason are starting to emerge in the slack fill space, suggesting that these cases may ...