Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has filed a second lawsuit in Washington that accuses a celebrity chef of breaking a contract to open a restaurant in the new Trump hotel in downtown Washington. The complaint against Geoffrey Zakarian comes days after Trump sued chef and restaurateur José Andrés over his decision to pull out of Trump's hotel project. Zakarian, like Andrés, scrapped plans for a restaurant in the hotel in response to Trump's controversial remarks about immigration.
August 04, 2015 at 01:20 PM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
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Trump on July 31 filed breach of contract claims against Andrés, who criticized Trump over his comments about immigration, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Rebecca Woods of Seyfarth Shaw is representing the Trump entity serving as the plaintiff in both cases, Trump Old Post Office LLC.
In the Andrés complaint, Trump’s lawyers wrote:
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