Potentially wooly legal battle ends quickly: Local cashmere group wins court order to stop online retailer from marketing acrylic scarves as 100% cashmere

The Cashmere and Camel Hair Manufacturers Institute, a planetary commercialized radical that for immoderate crushed is headquartered successful the Back Bay, scored a ineligible triumph this week erstwhile a New Jersey institution that had been selling "100% cashmere" Scottish scarves connected Amazon contempt them being made from a petroleum-based fiber, agreed to sound it off.

A justice successful US District Court successful Boston past filed an authoritative bid holding CS Accessories of Edgewater, NJ to that.

Prior to the settlement, Amazon, which was besides a defendant, said it was doing what it could to support its third-party sellers from selling fake cashmere goods. The institute legally scoffed astatine that, but agreed to disregard its suit against some CS and Amazon the time earlier Judge William Young issued his order.

Young's bid comes little than a period aft the institute, which represents manufacturers of covering made from the wool of Manchurian and Mongolian goats, sued.

Complete order (1.4M PDF).