Resolution Affirms Preliminary Ruling that Josh Kesselman Violated the Illinois Uniform Misleading Industry Apply Occupation

GLENVIEW, Sick., June 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — In a sweeping scold of misleading advertising and marketing, the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the 7th Circuit has preserved a national everlasting injunction in opposition to RAW^® Rolling Papers maker HBI World. The ruling affirms the jury’s discovering that HBI and its founder Josh Kesselman misled shoppers with fake claims about its merchandise. Rejecting HBI’s effort to restrict the injunction to Illinois, the Courtroom made cloudless: HBI’s dishonesty is a countrywide defect requiring a national treatment.

This punitive injunction resulted from a case introduced through international rolling paper section chief Republic Manufacturers, by which a jury discovered that HBI did violate the Illinois Uniform Misleading Industry Practices Occupation and swamped in unfair pageant in advertising and marketing RAW^® rolling papers.

In upholding the injunction, courtroom paperwork indicate that HBI and RAW have proven “a proclivity to attempt to evade court order.” The paperwork additional give an explanation for that “by mandating that HBI verify the accuracy of its factual statements—or otherwise use opinions—the district court crafted a remedy that it reasonably believed would deter future violations that it could “somewhat” anticipate from HBI’s conduct.”

The HBI advertising and marketing methods that caused the national everlasting injunction incorporated a layout of claims that Republic Manufacturers effectively argued weren’t correct:

• A portion of income from RAW merchandise is going to the non-existent “RAW Foundation,” which makes use of the ones budget to save lots of lives international
• RAW natural hemp papers are made in Alcoy, Spain
• RAW natural papers are made with herbal hemp gum
• RAW natural hemp papers are the “world’s first” or “world’s only” natural hemp rolling papers
• RAW natural hemp papers are made the use of breeze energy
• RAW natural hemp papers are “unrefined”
• HBI’s proprietor, Josh Kesselman, invented rolling paper “cones”

“This is more than a win for Republic Brands. It’s a win for all rolling paper consumers who expect and deserve truth in advertising from the brands they purchase,” mentioned Republic Manufacturers CEO Don Levin. “As the world’s largest manufacturer of rolling papers and smoking accessories, we take our role as leaders seriously. We’ll continue to fight for a level playing field where all parties act in good faith and engage in honest marketing and advertising practices.”

About Republic Manufacturers®
The sector’s well-known rolling corporate, Republic Manufacturers^® holds probably the most intensive portfolio within the section together with (OCB^®, JOB^®, e-z wider^®, DRUM^®, Premier^®, Gambler^®, and TOP^® manufacturers. Republic Manufacturers is a part of a family-owned corporate this is identified for inventions similar to sustainable bamboo, hemp and flax fiber papers and cones, its herbal acacia gum, and the world over known ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 and GMP requirements.

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