Buffalo Wild Wings Beats ‘Boneless Wing’ False-Advertising Suit

Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. defeated allegations it fooled customers by calling deep-fried chicken nuggets “boneless wings,” with a federal judge saying the lawsuit “has no meat on its bones.”

The consumer leading the proposed class action didn’t “plausibly allege that reasonable consumers are deceived by boneless wings,” Judge John J. Tharp Jr. said Tuesday.

“A reasonable consumer would not think that BWW’s boneless wings were truly deboned chicken wings, reconstituted into some sort of Franken-wing,” the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois judge said, discarding customer Aimen Halim’s complaint.

Halim said he thought he was ordering real ...