BlackOxygen Organics and proprietor Marc Saint-Onge have copped a $7.5 million class-action default judgment.
BlackOxygen Organics was an MLM firm Saint-Onge launched in 2015.
BlackOxygen Organics primarily marketed fulvic acid, sourced from a lavatory Saint-Onge owned up in Canada.
Saint-Onge’s lavatory sat adjoining a poisonous waste processing facility. Given Black Oxygen Organics was promoting fulvic acid for human consumption, product security questions had been raised.
Following a Canadian product recall citing “potential well being dangers” in October 2021, BlackOxygen Organics shut down a month later in November.
On November nineteenth, 2021, a class-action was filed in opposition to Black Oxygen Organics and Saint-Onge. The then proposed class-action, filed in Georgia, alleged toxicity associated to BlackOxygen Organics’ merchandise.
Whereas BlackOxygen Organics publicly responded to the lawsuit again in 2021…
BlackOxygen has engaged authorized counsel and it intends to vigorously contest the false allegations and, if acceptable, assert claims for damages in opposition to the accountable events for defamation and harm to BlackOxygen’s repute.
BlackOxygen is assured that it’ll prevail by presenting the true information about BlackOxygen merchandise and by proving that the allegations within the lawsuit are false and malicious.
…the corporate and Saint-Onge in the end didn’t defend the matter in courtroom.
In an October twenty ninth order granting default judgment in opposition to BlackOxygen Organics and Saint-Onge, the Georgia courtroom wrote;
The defendants BlackOxygen Organics USA, Inc. and Marc Saint-Onge, having didn’t plead or in any other case to defend on this motion and default having been duly entered, and the Courtroom, Leigh Martin Could, United States District Choose, by order of October 28, 2024, having directed that judgment difficulty in favor of plaintiffs and in opposition to the defendants, it’s hereby ORDERED AND ADJUDGED, that the plaintiffs Janice McMonigle, Amberly Ogden, Molly Sliwinski, and Lauren Wells get well from the defendants BlackOxygen Organics USA, Inc. and Marc Saint-Onge, the quantity of $7,554,603.59 in damages.
The licensed class consists of any US customers who bought BlackOxygen Organics powered merchandise from November 2019.
BehindMLM final got here throughout Saint-Onge in July 2023, because the product formulator for Lovvare.
At launch Lovvare was fronted by CEO and former BlackOxygen Organics Grasp Distributor, John Altshuler.
Immediately there isn’t a point out of Altshuler on Lovvare’s web site. As a substitute Saint-Onge is offered as the corporate’s “founding formulator”.
As of October 2024, SimilarWeb tracked simply 192 month-to-month visits to Lovvare’s web site.
It’s unclear what affect, if any, the BlackOxygen Organics default judgment may need on Lovvare’s enterprise operations.