/hospitality?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Hospitality Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Mon, 16 Jun 2025 22:26:17 +0000 /hospitality/articles/2354014?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /hospitality/articles/2354014 A California federal judge Monday tossed a Washington husband and wife's lawsuit that alleged a Golden State Ritz-Carlton hotel served them bottled water contaminated with a hotel employee's semen, saying the couple failed to prove it was indeed a hotel employee who contaminated the water. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 19:46:54 +0000 /hospitality/articles/2353112?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /hospitality/articles/2353112 The California Gaming Association is backing a casino owner and operator in its U.S. Supreme Court bid to undo a Ninth Circuit ruling dismissing the company's challenge to Washington state tribal gaming compacts, arguing the nonprofit has an interest in ensuring its members can pursue their legal claims. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 19:02:59 +0000 /hospitality/articles/2353623?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /hospitality/articles/2353623 Former Fox News anchor Ed Henry has settled a lawsuit brought by a former producer who accused him of rape and sexual assault, according to a stipulation of dismissal filed in New York federal court on Monday. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:51:56 +0000 /hospitality/articles/2353781?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /hospitality/articles/2353781 A class of tipped servers should be broken up, a steakhouse at the Foxwoods Resort Casino told a Connecticut state court, saying the workers cannot show that they all performed untipped side work that caused them to lose out on wages. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:35:40 +0000 /hospitality/articles/2353866?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /hospitality/articles/2353866 Grubhub cannot cite a deceptive practices settlement it entered into with the Federal Trade Commission and Illinois officials to terminate the city of Chicago's lawsuit targeting prices it shows to customers, a state judge said on Monday. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:28:39 +0000 /hospitality/articles/2353446?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /hospitality/articles/2353446 Greenberg Traurig LLP has hired a Goodwin Procter LLP partner as a shareholder for its Boston real estate team. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:20:57 +0000 /hospitality/articles/2353885?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /hospitality/articles/2353885 A Zurich Insurance Group unit owes over $5.1 million for business income and extra expenses losses and lost property value after a Texas hotel sustained water damage related to vandalism, the hotel owner told an Oregon federal court, saying the insurer covered repair costs but refused to pay for other losses. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 23:20:50 +0000 /hospitality/articles/2353450?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /hospitality/articles/2353450 A Texas federal judge upheld a Dallas ordinance requiring sexually oriented businesses to close for four early morning hours as a bid to reduce crime, shooting down a trade association and adult businesses' attempt to cast doubt on the city's rationale for the measure. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:17:30 +0000 /hospitality/articles/2353155?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /hospitality/articles/2353155 Hotel chains and their "benchmarking" software provider are telling an Illinois federal judge that the latest version of a proposed price-fixing class action is no better than the one that got dismissed in March, and that the plaintiff still hasn't alleged that the hotel groups ever communicated with each other. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:05:17 +0000 /hospitality/articles/2353234?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /hospitality/articles/2353234 A North Carolina-based hospitality group can't resurrect its suit seeking coverage for pandemic-related losses, a federal court ruled, saying changes in decisional law after a final ruling do not constitute "extraordinary circumstances" warranting relief from a judgment. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:41:09 +0000 /hospitality/articles/2353175?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /hospitality/articles/2353175 A D.C. Circuit panel ruled Friday that a new trial was warranted in a pandemic relief loan fraud case based on the trial court's inadvertent failure to instruct jurors to not draw negative conclusions from the defendant's decision not to testify. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:38:35 +0000 /hospitality/articles/2352587?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /hospitality/articles/2352587 A group of casino employees are fighting a motion in Michigan federal court by the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians to throw out a proposed class action involving a data breach, arguing that tribal sovereign immunity does not bar the lawsuit. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 17:01:19 +0000 /hospitality/articles/2352918?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /hospitality/articles/2352918 A pair of San Francisco residents filed a proposed class action in California federal court against SidePrize LLC for allegedly telling customers its "Pick 'Em" daily fantasy sports contests are legal in the state when they are actually prohibited gambling operations. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:57:09 +0000 /hospitality/articles/2350511?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /hospitality/articles/2350511 Virginia's recently amended consumer protection law requiring sellers to display the total price rather than expressly prohibiting surcharges follows New York's recent revision of its antisurcharge statute and may raise similar First Amendment questions, says attorneys at Stinson. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:07:18 +0000 /hospitality/articles/2329140?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /hospitality/articles/2329140 Speaking to elementary school students about the importance of college and other opportunities after high school — especially students who may not see those paths reflected in their daily lives — not only taught me the importance of giving back, but also helped to sharpen several skills essential to a successful legal practice, says Guillermo Escobedo at Constangy. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:32:35 +0000 /hospitality/articles/2352335?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /hospitality/articles/2352335 Domino's Pizza Inc. pushed for the dismissal of a proposed securities class action alleging the pizza giant knew that a major franchisee would underperform when the company made positive, forward-looking statements to shareholders, arguing that the claims are based on assertions over which the chain can't be sued. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:47:29 +0000 /hospitality/articles/2352265?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /hospitality/articles/2352265 A Black family on Wednesday accused a Colorado casino of discrimination for allegedly allowing a fellow casino customer and a bartender to shout racial slurs at them after an argument broke out over the family not being served drinks. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:07:26 +0000 /hospitality/articles/2352412?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /hospitality/articles/2352412 Direct purchasers of turkey have told the Illinois federal judge handling consolidated turkey price-fixing litigation that he should disregard two litigation funding subsidiaries' untimely attempt to lodge what they called a meritless challenge to a nearly finalized price-fixing settlement with Cargill Inc. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:39:34 +0000 /hospitality/articles/2352688?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /hospitality/articles/2352688 Econo Lodge has been sued in Georgia federal court by an unnamed plaintiff who alleges she was repeatedly trafficked for sex as a minor at one of the chain's hotels in College Park, Georgia, from 2014 through the end of 2016. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:03:12 +0000 /hospitality/articles/2350652?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /hospitality/articles/2350652 Attacks on judicial independence now run the gamut from gross (bald-faced interference) to systemic (structural changes) to insidious (efforts to undermine public trust), so lawyers, judges and the public must recognize the fateful moment in which we live and defend the rule of law every day, says Jim Moliterno at Washington and Lee University.