Guster -Hines et al v. McDonald's USA, LLC

  1. February 20, 2025

    McDonald's Gets Ex-Execs' 4th Depo, Some Fees In Bias Case

    Two former McDonald's executives pursuing race bias claims against the fast-food giant must sit for a fourth deposition and pay certain costs after their attorneys produced more than 1,700 documents their previous counsel had failed to disclose in the case, an Illinois federal judge has said.

  2. March 06, 2024

    Judge OKs McDonald's Atty-Client Privilege In Race Bias Fight

    An Illinois magistrate judge on Tuesday mostly upheld McDonald's attorney-client privilege assertions over internal employee-investigation documents produced by outside counsel at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP in a contentious race bias lawsuit by former McDonald's executives against the fast-food giant, finding that McDonald's and the attorney haven't entirely waived privilege.

  3. August 11, 2023

    McDonald's Loses Bid For Partial Exit From Race Bias Suit

    An Illinois federal judge has denied a McDonald's subsidiary's partial motion to dismiss a lawsuit lodged by two African-American senior executives who claim the burger giant has engaged in a pattern of discrimination that includes firing multiple high-level Black employees.

  4. March 07, 2022

    Ill. Judge Won't Sanction McDonald's Over 'Confidential' Docs

    An Illinois federal judge declined on Monday to sanction McDonald's for designating every document in a 3,800-page discovery production as confidential in a lawsuit accusing the fast-food giant of committing a "ruthless purge" of high-level Black employees.

  5. June 25, 2021

    McDonald's Must Face Bulk Of Black Execs' Race Bias Suit

    An Illinois federal judge on Friday kept alive most of a sweeping race bias and retaliation suit against McDonald's Corp. by two Black executives who claimed that the Golden Arches devalued Black employees, franchisees and customers.

  6. November 09, 2020

    McDonald's Ex-CEO Says Black Execs' Beef Not With Him

    Fired McDonald's CEO Stephen Easterbrook is urging an Illinois federal court to drop him from a race bias suit brought by two executives who accused the fast food giant of a "ruthless purge" of high-level Black employees, saying they conflated him with the company.

  7. March 03, 2020

    McDonald's Seeks To Nix Former Execs' Bias Suit

    McDonald’s Corp. has asked an Illinois federal judge to toss a suit by two former franchise executives alleging the company's leaders overtly discriminated against African Americans, saying they were actually employed by McDonald’s USA, the fast food giant’s nationwide franchiser and "a separate and distinct legal entity."

  8. January 07, 2020

    McDonald's Franchising Execs Say Leaders Overtly Biased

    Two former McDonald's USA franchise executives blasted the company Tuesday in an Illinois federal lawsuit claiming its leaders overtly discriminated against African Americans and retaliated against complaints over their conduct.