Trump Restaurant Lawsuit Could Be Tried in 2017

President-elect Donald Trump has no plans to settle his lawsuit against a celebrity chef who pulled out of opening a restaurant in one of Trump’s hotels, a lawyer for the Trump Organization told a judge on Tuesday.

Trump is suing restaurateur Geoffrey Zakarian, who canceled a deal for a restaurant in Trump’s hotel in downtown Washington after Trump made disparaging comments about Mexicans and immigrants at a campaign event in 2015.

Trump has resolved several lawsuits that involve his eponymous companies since the election in November. But Rebecca Woods, a lawyer in Washington representing the Trump Organization in the lawsuit against Zakarian, told a DC Superior Court judge on Tuesday that mediation had been unsuccessful so far and that the two sides had reached an “impasse.”

There will be a pre-trial hearing in May of ‘17 with a bench trial possible before the end of the year.

Another restaurateur who withdrew his restaurant at Trump’s DC hotel also has litigation along similar lines.

In addition, Trump is fighting his property taxes for the hotel he leases from the GSA in DC.

Source: www.dailykos.com www.dailykos.com

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