A federal judge has denied the Trump administration’s request to continue detaining unaccompanied immigrant children in hotels, finding the children are protected by a settlement governing their treatment in federal custody.
Read moreIn separate complaints against Milwaukee hotel operators, Fox News says it should have gotten a refund for the hotel rooms it reserved last year, to the tune of more than $129,000 each, in anticipation of covering the Democratic National Convention — an event ultimately held remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Colleagues of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Thursday that a bottle of water with a trace of the Novichok nerve agent was found in his hotel room after his poisoning.
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Two conservation groups said Thursday they plan to sue a Hilton resort in Fort Lauderdale Beach for violations of the Endangered Species Act if the resort doesn’t change outdoor and indoor lighting practices that the environmentalists say harm nesting and hatchling sea turtles.
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A luxury resort in southern India has turned its swimming pool into a fish farm to stop the business sinking amid the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Nearly a year after reviving the case, the full Second Circuit refused Monday to rehear a lawsuit claiming President Donald Trump violated anti-corruption provisions in the U.S. Constitution.
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The Trump administration backtracked Monday evening from plans to expel unaccompanied migrant children that were secretly detained last week at a South Texas hotel, following a lawsuit from civil rights groups after their attorney was thrown out of the hotel by unidentified federal contractors.
Read moreHilton Hotels & Resorts denounced late Friday the use of a South Texas Hampton Inn as a detainment center for migrant children, the same day civil rights attorneys sued the government after going viral on social media when they tried to contact the children and were forcibly thrown out of the hotel by three men who refused to identify themselves.
Read moreClaiming a new city law requiring daily cleanings of hotel rooms will financially strain already struggling businesses, hotel industry groups sued San Francisco in state court Monday.
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Aiming to recharge a faltering tourism economy hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, San Francisco city officials on Tuesday unanimously approved a set of aggressive new cleaning standards for hotels and large office buildings.
Read moreA black man sued Travelodge in San Mateo County Court, claiming a desk clerk would not let him check in to a hotel in San Francisco, though he had prepaid for his room with a debit card, then called police and told them, falsely, that he had a gun and had threatened her with it.
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BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Barcelona disco owners on Tuesday condemned a regional decision to maintain a ban on dancing, unless
Read moreA group of residents and merchants in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district have settled their lawsuit blaming the the city for street conditions that have made their neighborhood unlivable.
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An attorney for a former resort executive sentenced to 40 years in prison for a $300 million vacation rental scam asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to either reverse the judgment against him or grant him a new trial.
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California will permit bars, gyms, hotels and other facilities to reopen with certain restrictions starting June 12 in locations that meet state criteria for Covid-19 containment and preparedness, California health officials announced Friday.
Read moreMaine’s ban on out-of-state tourists and visitors who don’t own or rent property in the state survived a court challenge today, although the federal judge who denied a preliminary injunction said the case nevertheless “has potential” and suggested it might ultimately succeed.
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The Second Circuit upheld a ruling Monday that records of who has visited President Donald Trump’s White House and private Florida resort are exempt from government watchdog groups’ Freedom of Information Act requests.
Read moreAn appeals court in Missouri upheld the dismissal of a negligence claim filed by a hotel guest who mistakenly entered the wrong room and climbed into bed with a nine-year-old girl. The man was charged, but acquitted, with lewd and lascivious behavior with a minor and fired from his job. The fact that he forcibly entered a room he believed to be his own cannot be blamed on hotel staff.
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Hotels in Texas could get back to business this week, but some locals in rural parts of the state worry an influx of tourists could bring Covid-19 to places that have seen few cases.
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