Aurora Organic lawsuits dismissed

BOULDER – A United States district judge has dismissed numerous class action lawsuits filed in 2007 and 2008 against Boulder-based Aurora Organic Dairy Corp.

The lawsuits claimed that Aurora had misled consumers by labeling and selling its milk as organic, when it allegedly failed to meet certain organic standards.

Judge E. Richard Webber sided with Aurora to dismiss the case, saying that since 2003 Aurora had kept its federal organic certification under the Organic Foods Production Act, OFPA, and the National Organic Program, NOP, allowing Aurora to advertise its products as “USDA Organic” and “organic.”

The plaintiffs in the case claimed Aurora failed…