Harold’s Chicken Shack Worker Advances Lawsuit Over Groping, Gun

The operator of a Harold’s Chicken Shack in Chicago’s West Loop will face sex discrimination and tort claims by a woman who says a co-worker groped her buttocks and threatened her with a gun after she reported him.

Xayah Enterprises LLC was wrong that subject-matter jurisdiction over the former employee’s suit was lacking because the man she says harassed and flashed his gun at her wasn’t an employee of the location of the popular Chicago-based fried chicken restaurant that it operates, the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said. According to Xayah, the harasser was a patron ...