Potentially wooly legal battle ends quickly: Local cashmere group wins court order to stop online retailer from marketing acrylic scarves as 100% cashmere

The Cashmere and Camel Hair Manufacturers Institute, a global trade group that for some reason is headquartered in the Back Bay, scored a legal victory this week when a New Jersey company that had been marketing "100% cashmere" Scottish scarves on Amazon despite them being made from a petroleum-based fiber, agreed to knock it off.

A judge in US District Court in Boston then filed an official order holding CS Accessories of Edgewater, NJ to that.

Prior to the settlement, Amazon, which was also a defendant, said it was doing what it could to keep its third-party sellers from selling fake cashmere goods. The institute legally scoffed at that, but agreed to dismiss its suit against both CS and Amazon the day before Judge William Young issued his order.

Young's order comes less than a month after the institute, which represents manufacturers of clothing made from the wool of Manchurian and Mongolian goats, sued.

Complete order (1.4M PDF).