At a scheduling teleconference in August, Chancellor Bouchard instructed the plaintiffs that they should amend their complaint if they wanted to challenge the fee-shifting bylaw (and, at the court's urging, the corporation represented that it would not apply the bylaw to a challenge to the bylaw by the plaintiffs).
Though the State Legislature may challenge the fees, they represent perhaps the most concrete example of how Enron's collapse has jolted the finances of people who never worked for, held shares in, or knew the first thing about the company.
"Much as they may want to challenge the fees model, the threat of cutting places is a serious threat to the widening participation agenda, and something I'm sure the NUS will have something to say about".
While we do need a Private Higher Education Act of the kind advocated by HEPI in May and a stronger QAA with real teeth, we also need to challenge the fees model itself.
The plaintiff lawyers had help in amassing their $800 million take-from pension fund trustees who are oblivious, defense attorneys who won't challenge the fees because it might prompt the other side to push for an even bigger settlement and insurers who are happy to charge higher premiums to cover the rising costs of litigation.
The workshop at the OASIS Senior Center was not meant to challenge the fees but to gather input for the Newport Beach City Council.
Challenging the fee structures set by stock lenders is simply not in the interests of short-sellers.
A lawyer, Kenneth M. Mollins, challenged the fees as illegal, citing an older law that limited fees in court cases, which was not repealed.
The law was changed in response to a lawsuit challenging the fees as a violation of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.
A ruling in favor of the teachers challenging the fees could sap finances at all unions representing teachers, firefighters and other government workers, labor leaders and other experts say.
