{"id":5361,"date":"2014-07-18T12:32:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T16:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2020-07-23T11:13:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:13:31","slug":"5-hour-energy-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/5-hour-energy-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"5-Hour Energy Takes A Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8912\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8912\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/louis-hansel-shotsoflouis-2qDFZ9KYOgY-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8912\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/louis-hansel-shotsoflouis-2qDFZ9KYOgY-unsplash-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/louis-hansel-shotsoflouis-2qDFZ9KYOgY-unsplash-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/louis-hansel-shotsoflouis-2qDFZ9KYOgY-unsplash-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/louis-hansel-shotsoflouis-2qDFZ9KYOgY-unsplash-1024x696.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/louis-hansel-shotsoflouis-2qDFZ9KYOgY-unsplash-441x300.jpg 441w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dose of energy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/07\/18\/5-hour-energy-lawsuit_n_5597767.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Huffington Post<\/a>, three states are suing 5-Hour Energy for misleading advertising. Oregon, Washington, and Vermont are leading the charge and say more states will be filing suits in the coming weeks. All three states are seeking a permanent injunction preventing 5-Hour Energy&#8217;s misleading marketing practices, as well as restitution to the consumers who consumed the energy drink in those states.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Oregon&#8217;s Attorney General, Ellen Rosenblum, stated, &#8220;Plainly and simply, in Oregon, you cannot promote a product as being effective if you don&#8217;t have sufficient evidence to back up your advertising claims.&#8221; A representative from 5-Hour Energy stated Oregon&#8217;s allegations are &#8220;grasping at straws&#8221; and &#8220;civil intimidation&#8221; and said the company would fight this suit.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit states many issues with 5-Hour Energy&#8217;s advertising including 5-Hour Energy&#8217;s claim that their product contained a unique combination of ingredients to boost energy, but it&#8217;s only effective ingredient was a small concentrated dose of caffeine. Living Essentials stated they sell about 9 million bottles of 5-Hour Energy every single week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Huffington Post, three states are suing 5-Hour Energy for misleading advertising. Oregon, Washington, and Vermont are leading the charge and say more states will be filing suits&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2139,2140,2141,2142],"class_list":["post-5361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-settlements","tag-5-hour-energy","tag-5-hour-energy-lawsuit","tag-attorney-general-ellen-rosenblum","tag-living-essentials"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8913,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions\/8913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}