Food Lion, LLC
10 distinct federal employment cases from public court records (2002–2024)
2 trusted published court opinions across 2 distinct cases
What public court records show
Public federal court records list Food Lion, LLC as an employer in 10 distinct federal employment cases between 2002 and 2024.
The most common claims on record were Wage Theft, Wrongful Termination, and Retaliation.
Cases were filed across 2 states, most often in TN.
These figures summarize publicly available U.S. federal court records only. Most workplace disputes are resolved privately and never appear in litigation. A case outcome reflects many factors and is not a finding that any employer violated the law.
Written decisions across 2 distinct cases.
Jurisdictions represented in the analyzed opinions.
About this employer
Food Lion, LLC appears in 2 trusted published federal employment opinions. Recent written decisions on record:
Ratcliffe v. Food Lion, LLC (2019) — Mixed Result. Assistant Store Managers at Food Lion claimed the company improperly classified them as "exempt" employees. This classification meant they weren't paid overtime, even when working extra hours. The workers argued they should have received overtime pay under federal wage laws. Read the ruling.
Howard v. Food Lion, Inc. (2002) — Defendant Win. This case involved an employee named Howard who sued grocery chain Food Lion for workplace discrimination. While the specific details of the discrimination claims are not provided in the available information, Howard believed the company treated them unfairly based on protected characteristics like race, gender, age, o… Read the ruling.
The published opinions primarily involve Wage Theft, Wrongful Termination, Retaliation. Browse the linked claim hubs for outcome statistics and other employers facing the same allegations. Wage Theft, Wrongful Termination and Retaliation.
Published opinions span Tennessee (1), North Carolina (1). Tennessee is an EEOC deferral state, which extends the federal Title VII / ADA / ADEA filing deadline from 180 to 300 days. Browse state-specific employment rulings for jurisdictional patterns. Tennessee rulings and North Carolina rulings.
These published opinions sit within the retail sector, where wage-and-hour, scheduling, and Title VII harassment claims are the dominant categories.
Claim Types
What these numbers mean
A case is one lawsuit, identified by its court and docket number. The docket is the running court record for that same case — it is not an extra case.
A published opinion or ruling is a written court decision. One case can produce several opinions, so opinion counts and case counts answer different questions. Only trusted, reportable opinions are used in the outcome statistics on this page.
Docket entries are the individual filings inside a case — motions, orders, scheduling notices. We read them to confirm a case is real and to see where it got to, but an entry is never counted as a case or as an outcome. A single case can generate hundreds of entries.
Far fewer opinions than cases is normal. Many employment cases settle privately or close without a published opinion. No opinion here does not mean the worker lost; it means this public record does not show a reportable result.
Everything on this page comes from public federal court records. Where we are not confident a record is accurate, we leave it out rather than guess.
Federal court cases
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Data sourced from public federal court records via CourtListener.com. Case outcomes extracted using AI analysis. This information is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. The presence of an employer on this page does not imply wrongdoing — many cases are dismissed or resolved without findings of liability.