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Company: Nordstrom Inc.
Current Parent Company: Nordstrom
Penalty: $2,000,000
Year: 2016
Date: October 28, 2016
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Secondary Offense: false advertising
Violation Description: Nordstrom and jeans producers AG Adriano Goldschmied together agreed to provide vouchers and free garments worth an estimated $4 million to a class of plaintiffs who alleged they sold jeans falsely marketed as made in the USA. Court documents did not indicate how much each company would pay. Here we assume they each took responsibility for half of the costs.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Southern District of California
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 3:14-cv-01372
Case Name: Paz v. AG Adriano Goldschmied, Inc. et al
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Washington
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: retailing
Specific Industry of Current Parent: retail-department stores
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