Federal Judge Tosses Shareholder Derivative Suit On ‘Woke’ Starbucks Strategies

(September 21, 2023, 7:23 AM EDT) -- SPOKANE, Wash. — A federal judge in Washington dismissed with prejudice a shareholder derivative lawsuit against Starbucks and more than a dozen of its executives filed by a political activist group that owns a small amount of stock in the company that criticized the Starbucks Corp. for “woke” business practices in public statements, with the judge finding that the group failed to show that Starbucks had acted wrongfully when Starbucks refused the group’s demands....