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Raped at a Holiday Inn in Montego Bay, Jamaica
May 17, 2018
In this week’s travel law article we examine the case of Robin Hutchings v. InterContinental Hotels Group, PLC. & SC Hotels and Resorts (Jamaica) d/b/a Holiday Inn Resort Montego Bay, Cause No. 1:17-CV-791 RLM-DLP (S.D. Ind. 2018) wherein the plaintiff claimed that the defendants “were negligent in failing to exercise reasonable care to protect her safety while she was a guest at the Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort in Montego Bay, Jamaica where she was allegedly assaulted and raped…Ms. Hutchings says in her complaint that while she and her now-husband…were guests at the Holiday Inn in Montego Bay, Jamaica, she was viciously raped at the Holiday Inn and tortured by three men who entered the women’s restroom and jumped into the locked stall she was using. Ms. Hutchings alleges that hotel staff and security didn’t respond to her cries and that the attack didn’t end until Mr. Hutchings heard her screaming, entered th
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InterContinental Hotels Drops Out Of Sex-Trafficking Suit
Law360 (June 23, 2021, 8:03 PM EDT) An anonymous accuser has dismissed United Kingdom-based InterContinental Hotels Group PLC from her sex-trafficking lawsuit against a slew of hotels in Ohio federal court as the parties hash out discovery and a trial schedule in the long-running case.
The sex-trafficking survivor who is proceeding anonymously and is identified by her initials, M.A. on Monday voluntarily dismissed with prejudice all claims against InterContinental, whose global headquarters are located in Denham, Buckinghamshire, in the UK. InterContinental is the parent company of Georgia-based subsidiaries Six Continents Hotels Inc. and Holiday Hospitality Franchising LLC, which are still named in the suit.
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Hotels Denied Booking.com Docs In Antitrust Suit
Law360 (May 5, 2021, 6:50 PM EDT) A Texas federal magistrate has blocked a subpoena bid filed by three hotel chains that wanted documents about nonparty Booking Holdings Inc. s relationships and communications involving TravelPass and other hotel chains facing TravelPass antitrust suit, finding that the hotels took too long to file their compel motion for a subpoena filed by a dismissed defendant.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Caroline Craven ruled in a Tuesday opinion that Marriott International Inc., Choice Hotels International Inc. and Six Continents Hotels Inc. couldn t compel Red Roof Inns Inc. s subpoena motion because the motion missed the suit s discovery deadlines. She also granted TravelPass protective order for.
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Hotels Say Expedia Shouldn t Join TravelPass Antitrust Suit
Law360 (March 4, 2021, 8:04 PM EST) Three hotel chains have urged a Texas federal judge to deny Expedia s bid to intervene in TravelPass antitrust suit, which claims the chains conspired to keep it from bidding on search terms, saying TravelPass has already opposed releasing information about a private arbitration between the two booking companies.
Choice Hotels International Inc., Marriott International Inc. and Six Continents Hotels Inc. also asked the court to grant their motions to compel the production of highly relevant materials from the now-settled arbitration between TravelPass Group LLC and Expedia Inc. The hotel chains said Expedia should not be allowed to unilaterally redact information that.