Sacramento woman sues Chipotle for $2 billion

A Sacramento woman has filed a $2.2 billion lawsuit against Chipotle, claiming the restaurant chain used her picture for promotional materials without her permission and wrongly associated her with alcoholic beverages.

Leah Caldwell says Chipotle used a 2006 photo of her eating at a Denver restaurant. Caldwell claims she did not know the picture was taken and never signed a release form.

But that's not all Caldwell is upset about. She claims the photo was edited to include pictures of alcohol, which Caldwell doesn't want to be associated with.

According to the Sacramento Bee, Caldwell first realized Chipotle was using the photo of her in 2014, when she saw it on the wall of an Orlando restaurant. In 2015, she found the same photo posted in multiple Northern California Chipotle locations.

So now Caldwell is suing- to the tune of over $2 billion. That's how much she claims Chipotle made from the photo over the past 10 years.

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