PSD Wins Preliminary Injunction Requiring Corrective Disclosures in Wine Festival Battle
PSD represents the Nantucket Wine & Food Festival against Gordon Companies, Inc., and others related to their public claim of having acquired or taken over the festival. Pursuant to an Order dated December 12, 2024, a federal court in Boston directed certain defendants to make corrective disclosures over the same forms of press releases and emails by which they announced that they “acquired” Plaintiffs’ festival, that they “rebranded” it, that they would “continue” the “longrunning” event, or that their event was “previously known as” the Nantucket Wine & Food Festival. The Order required that they send the following corrective disclosure to each and every recipient to which they sent the Industry Email, the Customer Email, the Media Release, and the Industry Release, as those terms are defined in the Court’s Memorandum & Order, as well as to post this corrective disclosure on the allegedly offending website:
Pursuant to an Order of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts dated December 13, 2024, the Gordon Companies hereby discloses that, in June of 2024, the Gordon Companies sent out press releases and emails stating or suggesting that the Gordon Companies had acquired and rebranded the Nantucket Wine & Food Festival under new management. There was never any acquisition, rebranding, or new management of the Nantucket Wine & Food Festival. Any similar event previously announced by the Gordon Companies bears no relation to the Nantucket Wine & Food Festival. The long-running Nantucket Wine & Food Festival continues to operate. As previously announced by the Nantucket Wine & Food Festival, the annual tradition will continue May 14 – 18, 2025, under the leadership of its longtime Executive Director Nancy Bean. For more information, please visit www.nantucketwinefestival.com.
