The lawsuits share a basic flaw: Profit-making corporareonotare not human beings capable of engaging in religious exercise to begin with.
The "discovery" process, whereby both parties to a lawsuit share relevant documents with each other, used to involve physically handing over a few boxes of papers.
Tip sharing lawsuits aside, Starbucks is also combating several lawsuits from customers.
Here's the crux of the lawsuit: "The sharing of this competitively sensitive information among direct competitors made it less likely that any of these companies would reach a deal because they no longer had to fear that a decision to refrain from carriage would result in subscribers switching to a competitor that offered the channel".
Mr. Bankston's group, which is spearheading a class-action lawsuit against AT&T for sharing consumer phone records with the National Security Agency, issued an alert this week calling the AOL incident a "Data Valdez," asserting that it may be in violation of the Electronic Communications and Privacy Act, which regulates some forms of online communications.
Earlier this month, RIAV said that it was going to initiate a lawsuit against FPT Telecom for sharing recorded music over the internet via its website, Nhac So, and using copyrighted material on FPT Telecom's internet television service, IPTV.
In 2010, a Dunkin' Donuts employee filed a lawsuit against managers for sharing tips in stores across Massachusetts.
In 2000, Metallica was among a number of artists who filed a lawsuit against Napster for sharing the band's copyright-protected material for free without consent from any band member.
Today, access to music means finding a path through the maze of digital music options while dodging lawsuits for illegal file sharing.
In exchange, Ms. Love will drop several claims against Universal, a unit of Vivendi Universal, that she made in her lawsuit and will share rights to certain projects involving Nirvana, the band started by her husband, Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide several years ago.
