On September 29, 2022, a three-judge panel for the D.C. Court of Appeals, the highest court in the District, reversed the dismissal of suits the Center for Inquiry (CFI) brought against Walmart and CVS over claims that they deceived customers by marketing fake medicine as if it were real.
Walmart and CVS shelve homeopathic products alongside science-based medicine. This placement is deceptive to consumers who can easily confuse it for scientifically tested products that provably work—which they are not. CFI’s suits had been dismissed by two lower D.C. courts.