Senior U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody denied the motion filed by Charlotte Alexander, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Scheller College of Business, who sought to unseal the settlement. Alexander, the founder of a lab dedicated to improving court data accessibility, had argued that there is a federal consensus on the importance of transparency in Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) settlement agreements. She urged the court to make the terms of the P.F. Chang’s settlement public.
However, P.F. Chang’s opposed the motion, asserting that the confidentiality of the settlement’s monetary terms was a negotiated condition, and that disclosing these details would void the agreement. The restaurant chain emphasized that it had agreed to keep the financial aspects of the deal private and that any attempt to unseal the terms would breach this condition, effectively nullifying the settlement.
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