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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-27 | 2026-03-12 | described here | not extracted | NOT effective | disclosed | EDGAR |
Item 3 · The Company estimates any exposure to routine litigation to the business and establishes accruals for the estimated liabilities, where it is reasonably possible to estimate and where an adverse outcome is probable. Kurt Schertle, the former Chief Operating Officer and Secretary of the Company, filed the claim, Kurt Schertle vs. Weis Markets Inc. and the Weis Markets Inc. Retirement Committee, on November 4, 2025 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The case relates to certain benefit plan amounts that Mr. Schertle claims he is entitled to as a result of his former employment with the Company. The Company asserts that termination of Mr. Schertle’s employment on October 16, 2024 was for cause and that no obligation to Mr. Schertle remains. The Company does not believe the demand received on November 4, 2025 has any merit and will vigorously dispute any claim for payment. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Management’s Report on Disclosure Controls and Procedures The Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company (its principal executive officer and principal financial officer, respectively) have concluded, based on their evaluation as of the end of the period covered by this Report, that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were not effective. Item 9A · material weakness · This conclusion results from the identification of a material weakness in internal control over financial reporting, which indicates that the Company’s controls did not operate effectively to ensure that information required to be disclosed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, was recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified by SEC rules and forms, or that such information was appropriately accumulated and communicated to management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to support timely decisions regarding required disclosures. | ||||||
| 2024-12-28 | 2025-02-26 | described here | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · Neither the Company nor any subsidiary is presently a party to, nor is any of their property subject to, any pending legal proceedings, other than routine litigation incidental to the business that would not have a material adverse effect on the financial results. The Company estimates any exposure to these legal proceedings and establishes accruals for the estimated liabilities, where it is reasonably possible to estimate and where an adverse outcome is probable. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on the Company’s evaluation, Management concluded that the Company’s internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 28, 2024. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Management’s Report on Disclosure Controls and Procedures The Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company (its principal executive officer and principal financial officer, respectively) have concluded, based on their evaluation as of the close of the period covered by this Report, that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports filed or submitted by it under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and include controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in such reports is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. | ||||||
| 2023-12-30 | 2024-02-28 | described here | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · Neither the Company nor any subsidiary is presently a party to, nor is any of their property subject to, any pending legal proceedings, other than routine litigation incidental to the business that would not have a material adverse effect on the financial results. The Company estimates any exposure to these legal proceedings and establishes accruals for the estimated liabilities, where it is reasonably possible to estimate and where an adverse outcome is probable. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on the Company’s evaluation, Management concluded that the Company’s internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 30, 2023. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Management’s Report on Disclosure Controls and Procedures The Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company (its principal executive officer and principal financial officer, respectively) have concluded, based on their evaluation as of the close of the period covered by this Report, that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports filed or submitted by it under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and include controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in such reports is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. | ||||||
| 2022-12-31 | 2023-03-01 | described here | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · Neither the Company nor any subsidiary is presently a party to, nor is any of their property subject to, any pending legal proceedings, other than routine litigation incidental to the business that would not have a material adverse effect on the financial results. The Company estimates any exposure to these legal proceedings and establishes accruals for the estimated liabilities, where it is reasonably possible to estimate and where an adverse outcome is probable. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on the Company’s evaluation, management concluded that the Company’s internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2022. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Management’s Report on Disclosure Controls and Procedures The Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company (its principal executive officer and principal financial officer, respectively) have concluded, based on their evaluation as of the close of the period covered by this Report, that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports filed or submitted by it under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and include controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in such reports is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. | ||||||
| 2021-12-25 | 2022-03-10 | described here | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · Neither the Company nor any subsidiary is presently a party to, nor is any of their property subject to, any pending legal proceedings, other than routine litigation incidental to the business that would not have a material adverse effect on the financial results. The Company estimates any exposure to these legal proceedings and establishes accruals for the estimated liabilities, where it is reasonably possible to estimate and where an adverse outcome is probable. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on the Company’s evaluation, management concluded that the Company’s internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 25, 2021. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Management’s Report on Disclosure Controls and Procedures The Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company (its principal executive officer and principal financial officer, respectively) have concluded, based on their evaluation as of the close of the period covered by this Report, that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports filed or submitted by it under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and include controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in such reports is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. | ||||||
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- 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.