January 23, 2017
In feisty and folksy testimony Monday, the CEO and founder of Texas Roadhouse flatly denied allegations that the company he built had engaged in systematic age discrimination, calling the government's allegations false and its questions "lawyer sandwiches."
January 12, 2017
Attorneys for Texas Roadhouse on Thursday grilled one of the company's employees about her contention that a top official admitted to age discrimination, turning up the heat about 67 after-the-fact changes she made to her deposition.
January 11, 2017
A high-ranking official at Texas Roadhouse openly admitted that the company discriminated against older applicants for certain jobs, a human resources employee told a federal jury in Boston on Wednesday.
January 09, 2017
Texas Roadhouse engaged in blatant age discrimination when it rejected job seekers with sticky notes on their applications that said things like "older," "super old," "old and chubby" and "old chick," a government agency suing the restaurant chain told a federal jury in Boston Monday.
January 05, 2017
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a Massachusetts federal court Thursday to reject Texas Roadhouse's attempt to block the agency from discussing sticky notes attached to unsuccessful job applications in an upcoming trial over allegations that the steakhouse chain engaged in pervasive age discrimination.
September 27, 2016
A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled Tuesday that steakhouse chain Texas Roadhouse could not depose nine new fact witnesses as a January trial on claims of pervasive age discrimination looms because the delay in identifying them was the company's doing.
September 16, 2016
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission fought Friday to keep alive a lawsuit in Massachusetts federal court accusing steak chain Texas Roadhouse of age discrimination in its hiring practices, claiming to have rare, smoking-gun evidence to back the allegation.
May 16, 2016
Texas Roadhouse asked a Massachusetts federal court to make the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission hand over a computer program used by an expert in the agency's age-discrimination suit against the restaurant chain, saying it won't otherwise be able to analyze the data before taking his deposition in June.
October 19, 2015
Steakhouse chain Texas Roadhouse asked a Massachusetts federal judge Friday to block the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from sending extra discovery requests in an age bias suit, arguing that a magistrate judge's order allowing 25 additional queries gave the agency an unfair advantage.
May 06, 2015
A Massachusetts magistrate judge on Tuesday rejected the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's bid to force Texas Roadhouse Inc. to produce computer coding information to help speed up its ongoing discovery battle in the agency's age bias suit against the steakhouse chain.