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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Huffaker finds that the district court properly dismissed the restaurants' claim for violations of the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act in a class action alleging that the distributor regularly delivered underweight boxes of poultry products. The claim arising from the distributor's allegedly misleading weight labels is preempted by the Poultry Products Inspection Act. The restaurants failed to plausibly allege that the packages were underweight by federal standards. However, the district court incorrectly dismissed the restaurants' breach of contract claim to the extent that they allege they did not receive the amount of poultry products for which they paid. The restaurants' attempt to enforce their voluntary agreement with the distributor regarding pricing and weight of packages is not dependent on federal labeling or packaging standards. Reversed in part.