November/December 2020 Legal Update | Modern Restaurant Management | The Business of Eating & Restaurant Management News

Pooja S. Nair, a partner at Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP compiles recent legal news affecting the restaurant, food and beverage and hospitality industries for Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine.Litigation Restaurants Challenge Dining Bans: Restaurants across the country are challenging city, county, and state bans on indoor and outdoor dining due to COVID-19. These challenges are continuing to go through the courts in California, Michigan, Philadelphia, Oregon, Texas, and Wisconsin, among others. For the most part, courts have upheld dining restrictions due to public safety concerns. However these cases should progress to the state appellate court and supreme court level in the next month or two. Ninth Circuit Dismisses Popcorn Class Action: On December 4, 2020, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a class action lawsuit regarding partially hydrogenated oils in Pop Secret popcorn, finding a lack of Article III…

Pooja S. Nair

A partner at Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP, Pooja S. Nair is a business litigator and problem solver with a focus on the food and beverage sector. She advises food and beverage clients, startups and other businesses on a comprehensive range of issues, including employment, trade secrets, partnership disputes, contract negotiations and intellectual property.

Nair focuses on finding creative, long-term solutions to the business problems affecting companies of all sizes, from startups to publicly traded entities. She combines litigation experience with a strategic perspective, so that legal decisions make sense on a business level.

Prior to joining ECJ, Nair practiced at TroyGould, where she was the head of the Food and Beverage practice group. She also spent five years at Foley & Lardner focused on white collar criminal defense and internal investigations.

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Pooja S. Nair