Illegal Pete's company name is now legal in Delaware

DOVER, DEL. — Illegal Pete's is now legal in Delaware.

The Colorado-based restaurant chain has won a fight with Delaware officials who refused to accept its conversion to a Delaware limited liability company because the company's name has "a negative connotation."

Attorneys for the Division of Corporations indicated in a recent court filing that the agency had reversed course and filed the restaurant company's certificates of conversion and formation to become a Delaware LLC.

Illegal Pete's certificates, which originally were filed in late October and rejected, had been accepted as of July 8, according to the state's motion to dismiss the lawsuit. Illegal Pete's has until Monday to respond to the motion to dismiss.

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