Washington Business Journal highlighted Venable’s defense of acclaimed business Compass Coffee. The article highlighted Venable’s motion to dismiss, which the firm filed in response to a high-publicity lawsuit filed by a Compass Coffee co-founder.
The Journal quoted David Feinberg and the team’s brief, which argued that the lawsuit is a business dispute, rather than a federal racketeering case, and therefore the racketeering claims must be dismissed.
“Plaintiff's story is not one of mafiosos managing a criminal enterprise, but a pained postmortem of a business divorce by an estranged co-founder. RICO protects communities who are being victimized by vicious criminals, not a single person allegedly mistreated by his business partners.”
The Venable team representing Compass Coffee includes Feinberg, Michael Davis, Theodore Randles, Edward Beach, and Kaitlyn Iwanowski.
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