LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
−Removed: Our company was named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed on
−Removed: April 6, 2017, by Douglas Horn in the Maricopa County, Arizona, Superior Court,
−Removed: styled as Horn v.
−Removed: The Alkaline Water Company, Inc., et al., cause number
−Removed: CV2017-005485.
−Removed: Horn sought damages arising out of the alleged breach of a
−Removed: written employment agreement between our company and Mr.
−Removed: that our company has failed to pay wages and to transfer stock allegedly owed to
−Removed: him under the terms of his employment agreement.
−Removed: Our company denied the
−Removed: allegations of the claims, and moved to dismiss pursuant to the terms of the
−Removed: employment agreement which require that all disputes be resolved by arbitration.
−Removed: In response, Mr.
−Removed: Horn filed a notice of dismissal of all claims in that court,
−Removed: without prejudice.
−Removed: On September 21, 2017, Mr.
−Removed: Horn filed a Demand for
−Removed: Arbitration with the American Arbitration Association, asserting the same
−Removed: The claim has been assigned No.
−Removed: 01-17-0005-6474.
−Removed: Our company has
−Removed: responded, denying any liability to Mr.
−Removed: On March 19 to 21, 2019, a three
−Removed: day arbitration hearing on this matter occurred in front of a panel of three
−Removed: arbitrators (the Panel).
−Removed: On April 25, 2019, the Panel issued an Interim
−Removed: Arbitration Award finding that Mr.
−Removed: Horn voluntarily left his employment with our
−Removed: company in October, 2016 without legal justification, and ruled that the
−Removed: relevant employment agreement became null and void in October, 2016.
−Removed: further found our company to be the prevailing party in the arbitration and thus
−Removed: entitled to an award of reasonable attorney fees, costs and expenses.
−Removed: May, 2019, we submitted an application for fees and costs.
−Removed: On June 17, 2019, the
−Removed: Panel issued its Final Award granted us an award of $162,670 against
−Removed: Horn for our attorneys fees and associated costs.
−Removed: We intend to vigorously
−Removed: attempt to collect these awarded fees and costs from Mr.
−Removed: Except as detailed above, we know of no material pending legal
−Removed: proceedings to which our company or our subsidiary is a party or of which any of
−Removed: our properties, or the properties of our subsidiary, is the subject.
−Removed: addition, we do not know of any such proceedings contemplated by any
−Removed: governmental authorities.
−Removed: Except as detailed above, we know of no material proceedings in
−Removed: which any of our directors, officers or affiliates, or any owner of record or
−Removed: beneficially of more than five percent of our common stock, or any associate of
−Removed: any such director, officer, affiliate or stockholder is a party adverse to our
−Removed: company or our subsidiary or has a material interest adverse to our company or
−Removed: our subsidiary.
+Added: We know of no material pending legal proceedings to which our company or any of our subsidiaries is a party or of which any of our properties, or the properties of any of our subsidiaries, is the subject.
+Added: In addition, we do not know of any such proceedings contemplated by any governmental authorities.
+Added: We know of no material proceedings in which any of our directors, officers or affiliates, or any registered or beneficial stockholder is a party adverse to our company or any of our subsidiaries or has a material interest adverse to our company or any of our subsidiaries.
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