Restaurant guide critic loses whistleblower suit
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PARIS -- The &quot;storm in a saucepan&quot; intensified yesterday for a former top restaurant inspector who has become the enfant terrible of French gastronomy.
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LONDON : A former top executive at Merrill Lynch on Wednesday lost a sexual discrimination suit against the global investment bank, in which she had sought more than seven million pounds (13.4 million dollars, 10 million euros) in damages before a British
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A California district court has shut down a controversial Web site in the U.S. that allows whistle blowers to p...
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THE banker at the centre of Britain&#39;s biggest sex discrimination case was losing her firm almost $1ma week, a tribunal has been told.
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CINCINNATI A federal appeals court ruled today against former employees of a manufacturer of steel bar products who say they should be paid &quot;shutdown benefits&quot; because the company closed.
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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court threw out a $79.5 million punitive damages award to a smoker's widow Tuesday, a boon to businesses seeking stricter limits on big-dollar jury verdicts. The 5-4 ruling was a victory for Altria Group Inc.'s Philip Morris USA, which contested an Oregon Supreme Court...
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A court has thrown out a defamation lawsuit against Brigitte Bardot, ruling that the former film star had been provoked into calling the host of Radio Courtesy "a little jerk."
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A New York judge on Monday dismissed a   $10 million spousal abuse suit against Liza Minnelli filed by   her estranged husband David Gest, who claimed the entertainer   assaulted him in a drunken rage.
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Australian food critics were left spluttering into their napkins today after a court decision opened the way for restaurant owners to claim damages for bad reviews.
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The former New York Stock Exchange chairman lost his bid to have the lawsuit over his controversial $187.5 million pay package moved from the New York court where it was filed by state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
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Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez has been sued for fraud and breach of contract by an ex-husband, who claims she hired him to manage her restaurant just long enough to get it up and running, then fired him.
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Stephanie Villalba, a former top Merrill Lynch banker, lost her job because she was difficult to work with, unwilling to travel and lacked the leadership skills to turn around the loss-making division she ran, a British employment tribunal in London was
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(InfoWorld) - Intel may have lost some internal e-mails that the company is required to produce in aÂ lawsuitÂ brought against it by Advanced Micro DevicesÂ (AMD), lawyers for the company said Monday. In a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Farnan Jr., one of Intel's lawyers revealed that some internal e-mails were missing, despite the company's efforts to preserve documents related to the case. "Intel is taking this matter very seriously. It very much regrets this happened," wrote Richard Horowitz, a partner at Potter, Anderson & Corroon, which represents Intel. Horowitz blamed the possible loss of e-mails on human error. For instance, when Intel employees were instructed to retain e-mails on their hard drives, some employees did not move e-mails from their sent folder to the hard drives, assuming that the company's e-mail servers would preserve them. Instead, the e-mail servers regularly delete e-mails after a certain amount of time has passed, he said. Other employees wrongly assumed that Intel's IT department was automatically saving their e-mails, while some may not have saved all of their e-mails, Horowitz said. In addition, Intel failed to notify hundreds of employees to retain e-mails related to the case, he said. The allegedly lost e-mails were generated "primarily" after AMD filed suit against Intel on June 27, 2005, but earlier e-mails could not be ruled out as among those missing, Horowitz said. In a related filing to the court, AMD blasted Intel's apparent failure to preserve the missing e-mails. "Through what appears to be a combination of gross communication failures, an ill-conceived plan of document retention and lackluster oversight by outside counsel, Intel has apparently allowed evidence to be destroyed," AMD said, noting that Intel continued to allow e-mails to be deleted from its servers after the lawsuit was filed. "Everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong," AMD said. AMD and Intel are scheduled to discuss the document retention failures at a status meeting on March 7. AMD demanded in its letter to the court that Intel be required to give a full accounting of its document "preservation problems" no later than March 21. AMD's 2005 suit alleges that Intel engaged in anti-competitive practices to bolster a monopolistic position in the PC processor market. AMD claims that Intel coerced 38 hardware manufacturers, including DellÂ and Sony, into using only Intel processors or discontinuing use or promotion of AMD products. The alleged threats include forcing manufacturers into exclusive relationships, or offering deep discounts or marketing subsidies in exchange for discontinuing the use of AMD products. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, covers Intel operations in North America, Asia, and Europe. The suit was based in part on the findings of a Japanese anti-trust investigation, which found in March 2005 that Intel had abused its market position to restrain competition in Japan's microprocessor market. Â
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In CHICAGO story headlined &quot;UPDATE 2-Krispy Kreme lawyers found no purposeful misconduct,&quot; please read in paragraph 9 ... a former operating manager of a Northern California franchise ... instead of ... a
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PARIS - For the first time in its 105-year history, Michelin is recalling an edition of its famous food guide after it recommended a restaurant whose rating was determined before it served customers.
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A former waiter has filed a class-action lawsuit against a prestigious West Newton country club, contending that his employer illegally withheld thousands of dollars in tips from him and other servers.
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Zagat Survey's 2005 New Orleans Restaurants guide as rated by more than 3,600 surveyors. A 2006 edition was not published because surveying was not possible after Hurricane Katrina. Zagat's 2007 New Orleans Restaurant guide will be available Jan. 3.