• Chouinard v. Perfection Snacks

    Publication Date: 2023-09-04
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Bartle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-3276

    Canadian employee's claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act and Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act failed where employee exclusively worked in Canada. Defendant's motion for partial summary judgment granted in part and denied in part.

  • Doe v. The Cheesecake Factory

    Publication Date: 2023-09-04
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Olson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 254 EDA 2022

    Trial court properly confirmed an arbitration award where the arbitration agreement's resolution of disputes provision gave arbitrator the exclusive authority to resolve any dispute relating to arbitrability and trial court lacked authority to examine the merits of arbitrator's decision concerning the claims covered. Affirmed.

  • The Hershey Co. v. Woodhouse (Workers' Comp. Appeal Bd.)

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Manufacturing
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Covey
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 904 C.D. 2022

    Workers' Compensation Appeal Board erred in granting specific loss benefits petition where petition was untimely for lack of constructive notice because employee, despite knowing that his diabetic foot ulcer had been aggravated by his working conditions, failed to inform employer that his subsequent amputations were work related. Order of the WCAB reversed.

  • T.D.H. v. Kazi Foods of New Jersey, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-14
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Gallagher
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 5:23-cv-00634-JMG

    Court denied transgender woman's motion to proceed pseudonymously in employment discrimination claim where factors did not overcome presumption in favor of open judicial proceedings and public access to the judicial process, particularly where plaintiff had previously pursued a separate discrimination complaint without proceeding pseudonymously. Plaintiff's motion to proceed pseudonymously denied.

  • Carpenter v. Pepperidge Farm, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-07
    Practice Area: Wage and Hour Litigation
    Industry: Distribution and Wholesale | Food and Beverage | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Pappert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 20-cv-3881-GJP

    Plaintiffs who owned and operated individual product distribution territories were independent contractors rather than employees of defendant food manufacturer. The court therefore granted summary judgment in favor of defendant on plaintiffs' putative class action claim alleging violations of Pennsylvania's Wage Payment and Collection Law.

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  • United States v. United States Sugar Corp.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-07
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Federal Government | Food and Beverage | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Porter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan S. Kanter, Doha Mekki, Maggie Goodlander, David B. Lawrence, Daniel E. Haar, Nikolai G. Levin, Peter M. Bozzo, Brian Hanna, Jonathan Y. Mincer, U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, Washington, DC for plaintiff-appellant.
    for defendant: Melissa Arbus Sherry, Amanda P. Reeves, Lindsey S. Champlin, David L. Johnson, Charles S. Dameron, Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, DC; Lawrence E. Buterman, Latham & Watkins LLP, New York, NY; Christopher S. Yates, Latham & Watkins LLP, San Francisco, CA; Jack B. Blumenfeld, Brian P. Egan, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Timothy G. Cameron, Peter T. Barbur, David R. Marriott, Daniel K. Zach, Michael K. Zaken, Lindsey J. Timlin, Hannah L. Dwyer, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY; Amanda L. Wait, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, Washington, DC; Kelly E. Farnan, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Peter J. Schwingler, Stinson LLP, Minneapolis, MN; Daniel K. Hogan, Hogan McDaniel, Wilmington, DE for defendant-appellees.

    Case Number: 22-2806

    Rather than employ the hypothetical monopolist test analysis for determining product market under Section 7 of the Clayton Act, the Third Circuit affirmed the District Court's analysis using the actual market for refined sugar as the product market definition.

  • T.D.H. v. Kazi Foods of New Jersey, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-31
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Gallagher
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 5:23-cv-00634-JMG

    Defendants moved to dismiss plaintiff's title VII and state law discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, hostile work environment and battery action against company and three of her supervisors and court dismissed the title VII claims against individual supervisors but found plaintiff sufficiently pled her claims against company defendant. Motion granted in part and denied in part.

  • L.H. v. Rice Enter., LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-07-10
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
    Judge: District Judge Horan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2:23-CV-00613-MJH

    Plaintiffs moved for abstention and remand of state law claims for sexual harassment, sexual assault and/or battery and a sexually hostile work environment after defendant removed plaintiffs' action to federal court asserting court had jurisdiction because it was "related" to defendant's bankruptcy petition and court found all six mandatory abstention factors were sufficiently met. Motion granted.

  • King v. Driscoll

    Publication Date: 2023-06-19
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Legal Services
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Pellegrini
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1291 WDA 2022

    Trial court erred in enforcing settlement negotiated by parties' counsel where party opposing enforcement unequivocally testified that he never gave his attorney express authority to agree to a settlement and trial court failed to resolve that factual dispute. Order of the trial court reversed, case remanded.

  • Harkins v. Three Monkeys Croydon, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-12
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge McHugh
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2019-03333

    In a slip and fall case, plaintiffs appealed the grant of a motion for summary judgment in favor of defendant, a restaurant. The court denied the appeal, finding that plaintiffs' testimony and evidence did not establish causation or meet the requirements for admissible expert testimony.