February 03, 2021
Pizza franchise Papa John's International Inc. and two of its former executives no longer face a proposed securities class action invoking the #MeToo movement after a federal judge in Manhattan determined that a revised version of the suit didn't meaningfully improve on an earlier version.
July 16, 2020
Investors in Papa John's International Inc. on Wednesday asked a Manhattan federal judge to keep alive their suit alleging #MeToo-related misrepresentations by the pizza chain and its brass, arguing that the company's warnings about the reputational risks it faced didn't properly reflect the actual accusations already raised against it.
June 02, 2020
Papa John's has again asked a New York federal judge to dismiss a proposed securities fraud class action over a stock drop following #MeToo media reports of the pizza empire's workplace culture fostered by two top executives, saying public comments the company made weren't misleading.
March 17, 2020
Pizza chain Papa John's International Inc. escaped a proposed securities fraud class action in New York federal court after a judge said Monday that #MeToo-adjacent stock-drop claims failed to show the company violated federal securities laws with its representations about its company culture.
May 16, 2019
A proposed class of investors on Wednesday asked a New York federal court not to let Papa John's International Inc.'s founder and its CEO escape their suit over a stock drop following the discovery of a "shockingly lewd" workplace culture cultivated by the pizza empire and its two top executives.
November 30, 2018
A Manhattan federal judge on Friday cleared the way for an Oklahoma institutional investor represented by Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP to lead a proposed class targeting Papa John's International Inc. in a stock-drop suit tied to former chairman and CEO John Schnatter's allegedly abominable workplace behavior.
August 30, 2018
A Papa John's International Inc. investor accused the pizza delivery giant of keeping shareholders in the dark about alleged sexual harassment and other misconduct by founder and former CEO John H. Schnatter, filing a proposed securities fraud class action lawsuit Thursday in New York federal court.