Company · Restaurants & Eating Places
Starbucks Corporation
Federal civil lawsuits naming Starbucks Corporation, a Restaurants & Eating Places company.
- Ticker
- Nasdaq: SBUX
- Business
- Retail-Eating & Drinking Places
- Headquarters
- Seattle, WA
- Incorporated in
- Washington
- SEC CIK
- 829224
Starbucks Corporation is a public company in Retail-Eating & Drinking Places, based in Seattle, WA (traded on Nasdaq as SBUX, incorporated in Washington). It appears in 274 federal civil lawsuits in this index, most often as a defendant (247 of 274). These cases are most often Civil Rights and Contract matters, filed between 1993 and 2026, most frequently in District Court, S.D. New York. The most common causes of action are Employment Discrimination, Patent Infringement, and Americans with Disabilities Act. Frequent opposing parties include Starbucks Corp, Cohan, and Brown.
274
Lawsuits
247
As Defendant
27
As Plaintiff
17
Open
257
Terminated
1993–2026
Span
8 mo
Median Duration
8.1 cases/yrPredominantly defendant · 90%Civil Rights-heavy · 48%Activity rising
Cases by State
HI · 1PR · 1
Open Cases Over Time
1993peak 18 open2026
Case Types Over Time
19932026
Civil RightsContractPatentLaborTrademark
Filings by Year
19932026