A 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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The lawsuit makes the case for vigilant use of the “Do Not Disturb” door hangers and the funny slide-ball locks.
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Blasting what many believe to have been a slow response from the San Francisco mayor’s office in protecting the city’s homeless from the coronavirus pandemic, the San Francisco board of supervisors passed an emergency ordinance to procure 8,250 hotel rooms for those with nowhere else to go.
Read moreA Virginia appeals court overturned a woman’s conviction for defrauding a hotel restaurant by obtaining food without paying. The woman, who joined acquaintances staying at the hotel for breakfast, refused to pay $8 the hotel requested from her afterward for her meal. There was reasonable doubt as to the woman’s intent to defraud the hotel at the time she ate breakfast, the court ruled.
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California will use its bulk hotel booking program to offer free or discounted stays for health and other front-line workers who are afraid to go home and expose their loved ones to the novel coronavirus.
Read moreFour people claim they got Legionnaire’s disease at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel, in Fulton County Court.
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Just over 48 hours into a nationwide lockdown to contain a coronavirus spread, Italy was slapped with an $8.5 million fine Thursday over tourism-boosting grants that the EU’s top court ruled illegal.
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A wine bar that accused President Donald Trump of luring away its customers with his hotel just blocks from the White House failed Friday to breathe new life into its lawsuit.
Read moreA federal class action claims that MGM Resorts International allowed hackers to breach its computers last summer, exposing the personal information of more than 10.6 million customers.
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A crew of Rolls Royce-riding identity thieves who posed as rap industry figures scammed more than $100,000 from some of the South’s most exclusive hotels, prosecutors say.
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Japanese police have arrested a mother-and-son duo for allegedly making more than 3,200 no-show hotel cancellations, costing the hotels $1 million while collecting reward points worth $22,000, reports said Wednesday.
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The Connecticut woman who drove through security checkpoints outside President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club Friday, prompting Secret Service to open fire on her, has a history of mental illness and was off her medication at the time of the incident, her attorney claimed.
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