Corn refiners in a legal battle against the sugar industry have moved to disqualify opposing counsel, claiming the June 1 merger creating Squire Patton Boggs has created a conflict in the case.
Squire Sanders brought the trademark lawsuit in 2011 on behalf of The Sugar Association Inc. in Washington and nine of its members, alleging that the Corn Refiners Association and its members misled consumers through a $130 million advertising campaign declaring that corn syrup is “natural,” that “sugar is sugar,” that “your body can’t tell the difference” and that it’s “nutritionally the same as table sugar.”
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