Supreme Court Takes Up Case Involving Allegation That Tainted Baby Food Causes Autism

A federal appeals court ruled grocery chain Whole Foods should not have been dropped from the lawsuit and sent the case back to state court.

A Whole Foods Market store in Santa Monica, Calif., on March 19, 2018. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

The Supreme Court agreed on April 28 to hear a case about whether a state court should have to retry two parents’ claim that allegedly tainted baby food gave their son autism.

The Supreme Court granted the petition in Hain Celestial Group v. Palmquist without comment in an unsigned order. No justices dissented.