{"id":4159,"date":"2024-12-04T10:24:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T15:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=4159"},"modified":"2024-12-04T10:24:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T15:24:03","slug":"mattel-hit-with-wicked-class-action-lawsuit-after-porn-link-packaging-misprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=4159","title":{"rendered":"Mattel Hit With \u2018Wicked\u2019 Class Action Lawsuit After Porn Link Packaging Misprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Last month, when we reported on\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/mattel-mistakenly-prints-porn-site-on-packaging-for-wicked-dolls\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mattel\u2019s packaging misprint snafu<\/a>\u00a0that directed Wicked doll purchasers to an adult website, we all likely knew a concerned parent was waiting in the wings to seize the day and egregious amounts of money in the form of a lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Well, just like some other industrious folks who took the porn-baiting dolls to\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/wicked-dolls-porn-site-link-ebay-1236058466\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eBay<\/a>\u00a0for some quick walking money, South Carolina mother Holly Ricketson has filed a class action lawsuit after purchasing a\u00a0<em>Wicked\u00a0<\/em>doll for her daughter, who was then shown images of hardcore pornography after visiting the adult website on an iPhone. Filed in a California federal court, the plaintiff seeks over $5 million in damages for emotional distress caused by the X-rated\u2014and potentially costly\u2014mistake.<\/p>\n<p>For its part, Mattel apologized for the error last month and pulled the dolls from store shelves (and, no,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91227012\/mattels-wicked-packaging-snafu-wasnt-ai-just-plain-ol-human-error\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI wasn\u2019t at fault<\/a>), but the toymaker has yet to comment on the newly filed lawsuit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/mattel-hit-with-wicked-class-action-lawsuit-after-porn-link-packaging-misprint\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, when we reported on\u00a0Mattel\u2019s packaging misprint snafu\u00a0that directed Wicked doll purchasers to an adult website, we all likely knew a concerned parent was waiting in the wings to seize the day and egregious amounts of money in the form of a lawsuit. Well, just like some other industrious folks who took the porn-baiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}