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Kraft Heinz Sued for Fostering Workplace 'Rife With Anti-Black Slurs' and Discrimination

The lawsuit was filed by Sanford Heisler Sharp on behalf of three Black plant workers.
1 minute read

The Recorder

Gibson Dunn Files Securities Suit Claiming Interest Holders Purchased $15M Stake in Olive Oil Company Under False Pretenses

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read

New York Law Journal

TriMark Lenders to Face Claims Over Pandemic Refinancing Package, Judge Rules

The lenders, who made a $585 million loan to TriMark under a 2017 credit agreement, have referred to the rescue package as a "cannibalistic assault" on their rights and an example of "lender-on-lender" violence.
4 minute read

Law.com

McDonald's Settles Some of the First Workers' Lawsuits Over COVID-19 Protections

The public nuisance lawsuits, one in California and one in Illinois, alleged that McDonald's failed to protect its restaurant workers from COVID-19. The suits, one of which alleged workers had to wear doggie diapers and coffee filters as masks, both resulted in preliminary injunctions against the fast-food chain.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Appeals Judges Asked to Toss Premises Liability Suit Over Pappadeaux Murder-Robbery

Lawyers for the owners of the Pappadeaux and Pappasito's restaurants in Marietta and a co-defendant security company argued that the Georgia Court of Appeals should toss a premises liability lawsuit filed by the widow of man who was murdered a 2016 robbery that also left her with a gunshot wound.
5 minute read

Litigation Daily

Caroline Teichner Describes How Litigators at Kraft Heinz Aim to Be the 'Most Reasonable People in the Room'

"When you're in private practice, you often are thinking purely from a legal strategy standpoint about what arguments are going to win," said Teichner, litigation counsel at the world's fifth-largest food and beverage company. "When you're in-house you're thinking: 'Is this dispute important to the business?'"
10 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Connecticut Woman Sues Amazon For Delivering Blender That Allegedly Caused Injury

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read

Daily Business Review

In a Changing World, the Art of the Pivot Can Be Invaluable for Business Success

The concept of pivoting, which in the start-up space refers to shifting a company's strategy, has relevance today to firms and businesses of all shapes and sizes.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

2nd Circuit Takes Cue From NY's Top Court in Tossing Farmworkers' Claims Against Occidental

A three-judge panel of the Manhattan-based appeals court adopted the New York Court of Appeals' answers to two certified questions of law.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Development Dilemma

As the pandemic begins to recede, many franchisors are seeking to push their existing franchisees to develop quickly. From the point of view of the franchisees, however, there are some counterbalancing forces in the economy that make this push one that starkly illustrates the difference between a franchisor's interest in driving overall topline sales of the system, and the franchisee's need to be concerned about the bottom-line profitability of each unit that is in operation. Ronald Gardner explores the factors at play in this edition of his Franchising column.
7 minute read

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