Legal & controls
Item 3 and Item 9A as filed · every verdict is the registrant’s own sentence, printed below it · a filing that fails an extraction gate reads “not extracted”
| Fiscal year | Filed | Item 3 | ICFR | disclosure controls | material weakness | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-03 | 2026-03-16 | in the notes | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We are a party to litigation and other proceedings that arise in the ordinary course of conducting business, including matters involving our products, intellectual property, supplier relationships, distributors, competitor relationships, employees and other matters. Information with respect to legal proceedings may be found in Note K to the consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report, which is incorporated herein by reference. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on its assessment, using those criteria, management concluded that, as of January 3, 2026, our internal control over financial reporting was effective. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on this evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that the disclosure controls and procedures were effective to provide reasonable assurance as of January 3, 2026. | ||||||
| 2024-12-28 | 2025-03-12 | in the notes | effective | effective | remediated (prior year) | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We are a party to litigation and other proceedings that arise in the ordinary course of conducting business, including matters involving our products, intellectual property, supplier relationships, distributors, competitor relationships, employees and other matters. Information with respect to legal proceedings may be found in Note K to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report, which is incorporated herein by reference. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on its assessment, using those criteria, management concluded that, as of December 28, 2024, our internal control over financial reporting was effective. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on this evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that the disclosure controls and procedures were effective to provide reasonable assurance as of December 28, 2024. Item 9A · material weakness · Remediation Efforts to Address Material Weaknesses As disclosed in Part II Item 9A Controls and Procedures in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2023, we identified material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting associated with information technology general controls (“ITGCs”). | ||||||
| 2023-12-30 | 2024-02-27 | in the notes | NOT effective | NOT effective | disclosed | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We are a party to litigation and other proceedings that arise in the ordinary course of conducting business, including matters involving our products, intellectual property, supplier relationships, distributors, competitor relationships, employees and other matters. Information with respect to legal proceedings may be found in Note K to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report, which is incorporated herein by reference. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on its assessment, using those criteria, management concluded that, as of December 30, 2023, our internal control over financial reporting was not effective due to the following control deficiencies: The Company did not have a sufficient complement of trained resources with specialized skills and knowledge in information technology general controls (ITGCs), or an alternative contingency plan, to timely respond to the impacts of turnover in key personnel with responsibility for ITGCs that occurred during 2023. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on this evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as a result of material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting as described below, the disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of December 30, 2023. | ||||||
| 2022-12-31 | 2023-02-28 | in the notes | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We are a party to litigation and other proceedings that arise in the ordinary course of conducting business, including matters involving our products, intellectual property, supplier relationships, distributors, competitor relationships, employees and other matters. Information with respect to legal proceedings may be found in Note K to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report, which is incorporated herein by reference. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on its assessment, using those criteria, management concluded that, as of December 31, 2022, our internal control over financial reporting was effective. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on this evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that the disclosure controls and procedures were effective to provide reasonable assurance as of December 31, 2022. | ||||||
| 2022-01-01 | 2022-03-01 | in the notes | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We are a party to litigation and other proceedings that arise in the ordinary course of conducting business, including matters involving our products, intellectual property, supplier relationships, distributors, competitor relationships, employees and other matters. Information with respect to legal proceedings may be found in Note J to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report, which is incorporated herein by reference. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on its assessment, using those criteria, management concluded that, as of January 1, 2022, our internal control over financial reporting was effective. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on this evaluation, the Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer concluded that the disclosure controls and procedures were effective to provide reasonable assurance as of January 1, 2022. | ||||||
5 of 5 annual reports on record have their filing text cached on this host; the rest are listed with their EDGAR link and no extraction, because this surface never fetches from SEC on a page load.
- Item 3 and Item 9A are located in the filing HTML already cached on this host and read with the same line-anchored item matcher and largest-gap body disambiguation the filing-narrative pass uses for Item 1A and Item 7 — no fetch, no model, no summarization.
- A heading is accepted as a section only when it is not a table-of-contents row (a trailing page number), not a quoted reference in prose, and names its own section; the span must then clear a per-item length band and carry readable text after the heading. Anything that fails a gate is served as 'not extracted' with the reason — never as a default value.
- An effectiveness conclusion is read only from a sentence that names its own control set (disclosure controls and procedures, or internal control over financial reporting) and states an outcome. Conditional sentences — the standard limitations paragraph and forward-looking remediation language — are excluded, because they are hypotheses rather than conclusions.
- When a filing's own sentences disagree — an effective conclusion beside an unremediated material-weakness disclosure, or two conclusions of opposite sign — no verdict is asserted. A wrong 'controls were effective' reading is worse than no reading.
- Every verdict is shown beside the verbatim sentence it was read from. The excerpt is the filing's own words, capped at 1,200 characters; the filing itself is one link away.