Contesting plans to build a new hotel in the East Village, the nonprofit responsible for the Old Merchants House says in court that the development deal threatens “a veritable time capsule” of 19th century New York City life.
Read moreOne of several emoluments clause challenges faced by President Donald Trump received lift-off Wednesday with a federal judge finding that Maryland and Washington, D.C., have standing to sue.
Read moreAfter two hours of oral arguments Thursday afternoon, a federal judge ruled from the bench to temporarily block Trump International Hotels from pursuing claims in international arbitration court against the owners of a former Trump hotel.
Read moreA class of guests claims six hotel chains entered into an illegal and anticompetitive agreement to eliminate competing hotels from search engine results and freeze out online travel agencies like Priceline and Expedia.
Read morePolice in helmets and bulletproof vests have entered and then left the Trump luxury hotel in Panama at the center of a management dispute.
Read moreOne of President Donald Trump’s family businesses is battling an effort to physically evict its team of executives from a luxury hotel in Panama where they manage operations, and police have been called to keep the peace, The Associated Press has learned. Witnesses told the AP they saw Trump’s executives carrying files to a room for shredding.
Read moreFrom bathtubs to beds, decorative sofas to minibars, Paris’s glitzy Ritz hotel is auctioning off some 10,000 pieces of furniture and decorative objects emblematic of the luxury it offers its wealthy clients.
Read moreA “Game of Thrones”-themed ice hotel complete with a bar and a chapel for weddings has opened in northern Finland in a joint effort by a local hotel chain and the U.S. producers of the hit TV series.
Read moreAn investment group that has balked at the “objectively horrific mismanagement” of the Trump Panama Hotel claims in a federal complaint that the president’s business empire is trying to bully them into arbitration.
Read moreParis police have recovered some jewels stolen from the Ritz Hotel in a dramatic heist, but are still searching Thursday for two thieves and the rest of the missing luxury merchandise.
Read moreThe Washington State Attorney General sued the Motel 6 hotel chain Wednesday, claiming it gave guest lists to federal immigration officials who targeted guests with Hispanic-sounding last names.
Read moreA Bahamas-based company accused a Chinese firm of perpetrating “one of the largest construction-based frauds in this hemisphere,” in a lawsuit that centers around a multibillion-dollar resort complex.
Read moreA jury begins deliberations Wednesday on the fate of a former Mesa, Arizona police officer accused of shooting an unarmed man to death as he lay in a hotel corridor.
Read moreA group of Illinois cities lost their appeal to force Expedia and other online travel agencies to remit taxes on the full price paid by a customer for a hotel room.
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma claims a Holiday Inn Express, steakhouse and water park operator exploited a group of Filipino nationals as cheap labor and intimidated them with ties to law enforcement.
Read moreA citizen of the United Arab Emirates claims relatives of a Marriott employee in Ohio falsely accused him of pledging allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group, triggering a police takedown and a travel warning from his home country.
Read moreThe Eagles sued the owners of a Mexican hotel named Hotel California, claiming the owner is unlawfully capitalizing on the band’s hit song of the same name.
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Joining a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s business ties, 200 restaurants said Tuesday that Trump hotels elbow out competition on Washington’s “Embassy Row.”
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