( January 20, 2026, 11:35 AM EST) -- PASADENA, Calif. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals gave Nestle USA Inc. until Feb. 23 to petition for rehearing after a divided panel affirmed a trial court’s certification of two California classes of consumers in a case accusing the company of labeling that falsely implies that its chocolate products are produced without child labor and deforestation in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and Consumers Legal Remedies Act (CLRA)....