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Hospitality

  • April 30, 2025

    IHOP Franchisee Dodges Most Of Fired Server's Bias Suit

    A North Carolina federal judge let an IHOP franchisee escape the bulk of a fired waitress's suit claiming she was propositioned for sex by a male manager and fired for complaining about it, ruling she had failed to put forward any corroboration about the alleged harassment to keep her claims in court.

  • April 30, 2025

    Unaccepted Offer Can't End Server's Tip Credit Suit

    A Texas federal court ruled that it still had jurisdiction over a server's proposed collective action accusing a Houston-area restaurant of violating tip credit requirements, saying the worker has not accepted a $1,000 offer to end her case.

  • April 29, 2025

    Pork Producers Want Ruling Tossed Over Clerk's Conduct

    Pork producers and Agri Stats Inc., which are defending themselves against a major price-fixing suit, are calling on the Minnesota federal judge overseeing the case to recuse himself and vacate his recent rulings, accusing one of his clerks of having inappropriate relationships with plaintiffs' attorneys in a new filing this week.

  • April 29, 2025

    Koi Nation Can't Intervene In Casino Row, Court Told

    The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria is fighting a bid by a fellow California tribe at the crux of a dispute over the Interior Department's decision to take 70 acres into trust for the construction of a proposed hotel and casino project, arguing it lacks any justification to do so.

  • April 29, 2025

    DoorDash, Grubhub Settle Fee Cap Fight With NYC

    DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber Eats have reached a settlement in a case accusing New York City officials of passing legislation that unconstitutionally capped fees the delivery apps could charge restaurants, prompting a federal judge to sign off on a joint stipulation and order Monday that stayed the matter pending final resolution.

  • April 29, 2025

    Chicken Joint Sticky's Gets $2M Sale After Turnaround Woes

    Chicken restaurant Sticky's won a Delaware bankruptcy judge's tentative permission Tuesday to sign a contract to sell its assets to an investment fund for $2 million after surging poultry prices and New York City's congestion pricing program imperiled the company's Chapter 11 turnaround plan.

  • April 28, 2025

    Ex-Disney Worker Gets 3 Years For Profanity-Laced Menus

    A former Walt Disney World employee was sentenced to three years behind bars after he pled guilty in Florida federal court to hacking into a program used to create menus for the theme park's restaurants, adding profanities, changing prices and altering allergen information that could have put patrons at risk.

  • April 28, 2025

    Dallas Strip Clubs' Args Give Fed. Judge 'Déjà Vu All Over Again'

    A Texas federal judge told a group of Dallas adult entertainment businesses they were retreading old ground in a bid to get a city ordinance forcing them to close during early morning hours thrown out, saying during a Monday hearing that the Fifth Circuit already rejected their arguments.

  • April 28, 2025

    Estate Sues Insurer Over 'Paltry' Offer In DUI Death Case

    The estate of a motorcyclist killed by a driver allegedly overserved at a Washington bar has sued to force the bar's specialty insurance company to cover a partial settlement in an underlying wrongful death suit.

  • April 28, 2025

    GE, Haier Owe Nearly $3M For Motel Fire, Insurer Says

    An insurer is seeking about $3 million from GE and Haier in connection to a Super 8 motel fire it claims was started by a faulty heating and cooling unit, according to a lawsuit removed to a Texas federal court.

  • April 28, 2025

    PE Giant TPG Snags Sabre's Hospitality Biz For $1.1B

    Travel industry-focused technology provider Sabre Corp., advised by Haynes Boone, on Monday announced plans to sell its Hospitality Solutions business to Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP-led private equity shop TPG in a $1.1 billion cash deal.

  • April 28, 2025

    Prior Suit Dooms Guest's Suit Over Toss From Hotel Over Pot

    A Texas federal court has thrown out a man's lawsuit alleging he was illegally thrown out of a hotel for using cannabis, saying he can't take "another bite of the apple" after losing an identical case in state court.

  • April 28, 2025

    High Court Won't Hear Michigan Tribe's Land Trust Dispute

    The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a Michigan tribe's arguments that the federal government must take 73 acres into trust for a casino venture outside Detroit, after it told the justices that without the decision its ability to achieve economic self-sufficiency would be forever impaired.

  • April 25, 2025

    US Tourism Dips Amid ICE Confinement Of Foreign Travelers

    Stories of foreign travelers getting stuck in prolonged immigration detention while trying to enter the U.S. has other potential visitors spooked, leading to a predicted downturn for the hospitality industry and an economic hit for local businesses that rely on tourists.

  • April 25, 2025

    Live Nation Investors Get 1st OK For $20M Eras Tour-Tied Deal

    Event ticketing giant Live Nation and its shareholders on Friday secured a California federal judge's initial green light for their proposed $20 million deal to end proposed class action claims alleging the company misled shareholders in the face of anticompetitive allegations involving its Ticketmaster subsidiary following its missteps selling tickets for pop star Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.

  • April 25, 2025

    Tort Report: Texas Justices Set Dram Shop Standard

    The Texas Supreme Court's clarification of a bar's liability in a suit over the alleged overserving of alcohol and a suit over a Boeing whistleblower's suicide lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.

  • April 25, 2025

    Off The Bench: NIL Deal Drama, Oakley v. MSG, Transfer Rules

    In this week's Off The Bench, the landmark $2.78 billion settlement to compensate college athletes hits a snag, a former New York Knick's assault case against Madison Square Garden may be on shaky ground, and Vanderbilt University's quarterback fights to protect his successful challenge against the NCAA's eligibility rules.

  • April 25, 2025

    Bertucci's Says Uncertain Economy Sparked Latest Ch. 11

    Italian food chain Bertucci's filed for bankruptcy protection for the third time since 2018, telling a Florida bankruptcy court it is over $32 million in debt and dealing with industry headwinds and the "unanticipated deterioration" of the U.S. economy.

  • April 24, 2025

    11th Circ. Considers Sackett's Impact In Clean Water Suit

    Green groups and citizens who alleged Georgia's Sea Island resort misled the Army Corps of Engineers about a wetlands filling project urged the Eleventh Circuit to revive their suit Thursday, with the groups and resort arguing the Supreme Court's 2023 ruling in Sackett v. EPA worked in their favor.

  • April 24, 2025

    Starbucks Sued Over Human Rights Abuses On Coffee Farms

    The supply chain for Starbucks' Brazilian coffee is rife with slavery-like conditions and child labor, coffee plantation workers have said in a lawsuit, alleging they were forced to work for suppliers of the global coffee chain under "debt bondage" and threats of violence.

  • April 23, 2025

    Gaming Site Says Consumer's Suit Must Be Arbitrated

    The Cypriot operator of online "social gaming platform" Stake.us is urging a California federal court to order a consumer to arbitrate his lawsuit looking to shut down the website on allegations it offers illegal gambling, saying the validity of an underlying contract should be left to an arbitrator.

  • April 23, 2025

    Judge Says Calif. Tribes Can't Intervene In $700M Casino Row

    A District of Columbia federal judge refused on Wednesday to allow three California tribes and a company to intervene in another California tribe's suit accusing the federal government of wrongfully rescinding gambling eligibility for the tribe's $700 million casino project.

  • April 23, 2025

    Dolphin Encounter Co. Says Ex-CEO Took Over HQ By Force

    A restructuring professional retained by the bankrupt subsidiaries of The Dolphin Co. said in sworn court filings that the debtor's former CEO seized control of the business's Mexican headquarters earlier this month with the help of a cadre of armed men.

  • April 23, 2025

    Colo. Resort Developer Nixes Suit To Pursue Barbuda Claims

    A Colorado-based resort developer has voluntarily dismissed a Denver District Court lawsuit accusing a business partner on a Barbuda resort project of violating a noncompete by working on a similar resort, and plans to pursue his claims through a case in Barbuda, according to the developer's lawyer.

  • April 23, 2025

    Saladworks Operator Must Face Worker's Unpaid OT Suit

    A Pennsylvania-based franchisee of fast-casual salad eatery Saladworks cannot escape a proposed collective action accusing it of misclassifying assistant managers as overtime-exempt, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, rejecting the company's argument that there aren't enough assistant managers to support a collective.

Expert Analysis

  • Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys

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    Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.

  • Series

    Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The therapeutic aspects of appreciating and collecting art improve my legal practice by enhancing my observation skills, empathy, creativity and cultural awareness, says attorney Michael McCready.

  • Insurance Likely Kept Swift Out Of The Woods After Vienna

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    Financial losses Taylor Swift incurred from the cancellation of three concerts in Vienna in August will likely be covered by insurance policies, considering how the facts of the situation differ from those of the Foo Fighters' 2015 insurance dispute over event cancellation and terrorism coverage, say attorneys at Anderson Kill.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • Opinion

    AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys

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    The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.

  • Series

    Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics

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    Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.

  • It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers

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    Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.

  • Expect More Restaurant Ch. 11s As COVID Debt Comes Due

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    The wave of restaurant bankruptcies is likely to continue in the coming months as companies face the looming repayment of COVID-19 pandemic-era government loans, an uncertain economy and increased interest rates, says Isaac Marcushamer at DGIM Law.

  • Complying With FTC's Final Rule On Sham Online Reviews

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    The Federal Trade Commission's final rule on deceptive acts and practices in online reviews and testimonials is effective Oct. 21, and some practice tips can help businesses avert noncompliance risks, say Airina Rodrigues and Jonathan Sandler at Brownstein Hyatt.

  • Assessing Algorithmic Versus Generative AI Pricing Tools

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    A comparison of traditional algorithmic pricing models and those powered by generative artificial intelligence can help regulators and practitioners weigh the pros and cons of relying on large language models to price products or services, say Maxime Cohen at McGill University, and Tim Spittle and Jimmy Royer at Analysis Group.

  • A Preview Of AI Priorities Under The Next President

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    For the first time in a presidential election, both of the leading candidates and their parties have been vocal about artificial intelligence policy, offering clues on the future of regulation as AI continues to advance and congressional action continues to stall, say attorneys at Mintz.

  • How Companies Are Approaching Insider Trading Policies

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    An analysis of insider trading policies recently disclosed by 49 S&P 500 companies under a new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule reveals that while specific provisions vary from company to company, certain common themes are emerging, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.

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