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NEW YORK (Reuters)- When two former interns at the New Yorker and W Magazine sued parent company Conde Nast Publications on Thursday, legal experts said it could be the first in a wave of lawsuits challenging companies who pay little or nothing for student labor.

In 2003 we filed our first lawsuit challenging the companies proposing the development.

Not exact matches

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department is preparing a lawsuit to challenge the deal in case an agreement can't be reached between the government and the companies.

And while many startups and tech companies that depend on open access to the Internet have cheered those rules, which reclassify Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as public utilities under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, cable and telecommunications industry representatives have already filed several lawsuits that challenge the regulations.

While he battled the lawsuit, Frayne faced the challenge of running his company and undergoing treatment.

Beyond Charney's proclivity for attracting lawsuits, the other big challenge for the company is to deal with its debt — $ 175 million as of the end of last year.

The attack has likely sharply lowered the price Avid Life could muster in any sale of assets, assuming it could find a buyer willing to take on a company facing several multi-million dollars lawsuits and the challenge of rebuilding a computer network that has been so badly infiltrated.

The company had already been facing growth and revenue challenges, but CEO Adora Cheung said the «deciding factor» was the four lawsuits it was fighting over whether its workers should be classified as employees or contractors.

This morning, the Journal said the DOJ was «actively considering a lawsuit to challenge» the deal; now it says the Feds are «laying the groundwork for a potential lawsuit» but only «if the government and companies can't agree on a settlement.»

In challenging their status as independent contractors, Lyft's drivers were unable to bring a class action lawsuit against the app company thanks to an arbitration clause contained in their contract with Lyft.

The litigious Trump could nominate aggressive regulators who aren't afraid of bringing anti-competitive lawsuits or being challenged in courts by companies seeking to merge.

Investors in Elon Musk's Tesla electric - car company may press on with their lawsuit that challenges the firm's 2016 acquisition of SolarCity on grounds that the $ 2.6 billion deal was flawed by potential conflicts of interest involving Musk and other company directors, the court ruled.

The lawsuits are the latest legal challenges against oil companies over climate change and come as the firms are searching for new business models amid pressure by governments and consumers for cleaner energy.

Sugarman's lawsuit challenges the idea that donations to Patterson's campaign made though various limited liability companies allegedly controlled by the same person count separately under donations limits.

Faced with the threat of a lawsuit, companies tend to pay the patent holders even if they think the patent could be challenged.

The Trump administration has acted expeditiously to fill vacancies on top courts around the country, including the Supreme Court and powerful lower courts that could decide the fate of regulatory challenges and novel lawsuits, like localities suing oil companies for damages caused by sea - level rise.

But on the heels of a patent infringement lawsuit from sequencing behemoth Illumina, Inc., the company has revealed what will drive its newest devices — a bacterial pore that seems to circumvent Illumina's challenge.

If bankruptcy or debtor's court is not an option, or you are interested in correcting your credit report, defending a collection lawsuit, fighting back against abusive debt collectors, or challenging mortgage company abuses, you will have the information you need to decide what to do next.

Defeated motion for class certification on behalf of financial services company in lawsuit challenging use of independent contractors for information technology functions

AK: The challenges for smaller firms and solo practitioners is that while technology is unlikely to impact the efforts associated with taking a company public or litigating a class action lawsuit, it has great potential to eliminate the need for basic wills, simple court appearances, and routine administrative matters.

The size of the company may also impact the decision on how vigorously to challenge the lawsuit at the leave stage, says de l'Étoile.

As RTI argued, this may lead to more «sham litigation» in which a patent holding company files a lawsuit, prior to allowing a consent decree / settlement agreement, to ensure that its questionable patents» validity not be challenged.

We are adept at not only challenging insurance company interpretations of policy provisions, but convincing insurers that we are prepared to wage a lawsuit for bad faith denial of legitimate claims.

In the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, lawyers appealed two lawsuits that challenged the social media company's privacy and user data policies.

Google has now counter sued the company, challenges the original lawsuit, google claims that Android has not infringed any patent & said its just patent troll.

Simon has also filed a formal lawsuit against the Taubman board challenging the Taubman family's effective veto power over any change in control of the company.

Finally, the court considered the Company's challenge to the remaining count in the Government's lawsuit.