Law360, New York (November 18, 2015, 2:04 PM EST) -- An Ohio federal judge on Tuesday axed fraud and consumer protection claims in a proposed class action alleging the maker of Tito's Handmade Vodka rips off consumers by calling its industrially produced liquor “handmade” and denied the disgruntled drinker permission to amend. U.S. District Judge Susan J. Dlott left standing Anne Terlesky's claim that Fifth Generation Inc. had reneged on a promise to consumers by selling them mass produced vodka marketed as “handmade” and her request for an order telling the spirit maker to cease making the claim. But the judge dismissed Terlesky's Ohio Deceptive Trade Practices Act and fraud claims...

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