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Latest News in Hospitality
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March 10, 2025
Starbucks Faces Suit Over Fatal Patio Crash After Panel Flip
Starbucks owed a duty of reasonable care to a patron who was struck by a rogue pickup truck while sitting on the patio of a Salt Lake City area store, the Utah Court of Appeals has ruled, reviving her family's lawsuit against the Seattle-based coffee company.
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March 10, 2025
Starbucks Owes Up To $125M For Hot Water Burns, Jury Told
Starbucks should pay as much as $125 million for permanent disfigurement to a takeout driver that "changed who he is as a person," a jury heard Monday, after finding last week that the coffee giant was to blame for the spill of scalding water.
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March 10, 2025
Ski Resort Buy Deemed Illegal In Precedential NY AG Win
New York's attorney general celebrated a precedent-setting antitrust win Monday, faulting a ski mountain operator for buying a rival just to shut it down.
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March 07, 2025
Feds Say California Tribes' Casino Challenge Comes Too Late
The U.S. Department of the Interior and other agencies have asked a D.C. federal judge to deny two tribes' challenge to another tribe's plan to build a casino-hotel complex on 221 acres of trust land, saying their request for a stay is improper and untimely.
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March 07, 2025
Starbucks Liable For Hot Drink Spill On Driver
A unanimous California state jury has found Starbucks was negligent in the case of a driver who had scalding water spill in his lap, sending the case to a damages phase.

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