In 2011 the company successfully sued individual Amway distributors for reviving and propagating the false rumors.

In 2000, after the U. S. version of the CBS program " Big Brother " premiered, the Estate of George Orwell sued CBS and its production company " Orwell Productions, Inc ." in federal court in Chicago for copyright and trademark infringement.

This proves advantageous in civil suits as the owner or owners cannot be disclosed under Delaware Law and thus are safe from being sued alongside the company.

Since he had initially used Loft's finances and facilities to establish the new Pepsi success, the near-bankrupt Loft Company sued Guth for possession of the Pepsi-Cola company.

Simon and Garfunkel then sued Pickwick because the company was presenting the music as recently recorded material, not as songs written and released over five years earlier.

An internet company also unsuccessfully sued for the right to broadcast it.

* Boies defended Napster when the company was sued by the RIAA for facilitating copyright infringement.

Bach was so unimpressed with the treatment of the film that he sued the film company for negligence.

In March 2007 Tom Jones and Tom Jones Enterprises sued C / F International to stop the company from licensing sound recordings made from the 1981 Tom Jones series.

In March 2001, Forbes and Shelton were indicted by a federal grand jury and sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which accused the company of directing the massive accounting fraud that ultimately cost the company and its investors billions of dollars.

In April 2004, Equitable Life, a UK life assurance company, sued EY after nearly collapsing following a House of Lords judgement that it had to pay guaranteed annuities held by its policyholders.

The company sued Silberkleit in July 2011, and Goldwater filed another lawsuit against her in January 2012, alleging she was making bad business decisions and alienating staff ; she in turn sued him for defamation.

The company CellAntenna has sued the FCC claiming that the Homeland Security Act of 2002 did override the Communications Act of 1934.

The German film company Tobis Film sued Chaplin following the film's release to no avail.

Thus, if a company is sued for monopolizing a market and the jury concludes the conduct resulted in consumers ' being overcharged $ 200, 000, that amount will automatically be tripled, so the injured consumers will receive $ 600, 000.

He later sued the company and won a £ 120, 000 award.

The city also sued the Louisville Gas and Electric company, seeking to remove the then-newly installed 135-foot tall electrical towers east of Indian Hills Trail.

On 13 December 2011, Kiyotake sued Yomiuri for ¥ 62 million for unfair dismissal and defamation and demanded that the company issue him a formal apology, printed in the Yomiuri Shimbun.

In February 2011, Hinn was sued by the Christian publishing house Strang Communications, which claimed that a relationship with White did occur and that Hinn had violated the morality clause of his contract with the company.

For example in 2009, in order to protect its own company ’ s logo and identity, Google sued Pacific WebWorks and other unnamed defendants for promoting fake work-at-home money-making positions.

In 2006, Oricon Inc., Japan's music chart provider, sued freelance journalist Hiro Ugaya due to him suggesting in an article for Cyzo Magazine that the company was fiddling its statistics to benefit certain management companies and labels, specifically Johnny and Associates.

The television spot, which claimed BK burgers were larger and better tasting than competitor McDonald's, so enraged executives at McDonald's parent company that they sued all parties involved.

Since the company under review is supplying what we are here regarding as only one kind of service, we might suppose that the problem of total cost apportionment would be very simple ; ;

The Hughes company and the Consolidated Industries, Inc., both of 3646 N. 2d St., filed for reorganization under the Federal bankruptcy law.

The company has billed the United States Government for $7,500,000 of these expenses under the Defense Department regulation allowing costs of a type generally recognized as ordinary and necessary for the conduct of the contractor's business.

So is that of the limber company of lasses who whirl and glide and quickstep under Jack Cole's expert choreographic direction.

In 1957, Ayckbourn married Christine Roland, another member of the Library Theatre company, and indeed Ayckbourn's first two plays were written jointly with her under the pseudonym of " Roland Allen ".

In 1872, the firm was taken over by Friedrich Schreiber, and in 1876 it merged with the firm of August Cranz, who bought the company in 1879 and ran it under his name.

In 1947, David Brown Limited bought the company under the leadership of managing director Sir David Brown — its " post-war saviour ".

The source code to AMOS has since been released under a BSD style license by Clickteam-a company that includes the original programmer.

Regulatory Arbitrage was used for the first time in 2005 when it was applied by Scott V. Simpson, a partner at law firm Skadden, Arps, to refer to a new defence tactic in hostile mergers and acquisitions where differing takeover regimes in deals involving multi-jurisdictions are exploited to the advantage of a target company under threat.

Brunei's internet service is monopolized by a recently incorporated company TelBru under their " Brunet " department.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

In 1952, Lancaster co-produced with producer Harold Hecht ( who had previously produced three Lancaster films under his own production company Norma Productions ; Kiss the Blood Off My Hands ( 1948 ), The Flame and the Arrow ( 1950 ), and Ten Tall Men ( 1951 )).

The trio started a production company, originally with Hill as a silent partner, under the name " Hecht-Lancaster ".

The company dissolved in 1960, but Hecht would produce two more films in which Lancaster acted, under Norma Productions, ( 1961 ) and Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ).

BSC later arranged an exchange deal with Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd ( GKN ), the parent company of GKN Steel, under which BSC acquired Dowlais Ironworks at Merthyr Tydfil and GKN took over BSC's Brymbo Steelworks near Wrexham.

In 1998, under the distinctive bat logo, the phrase " company founded in Santiago de Cuba in 1862 " was added.

It can also be held concurrently with the title of CFO or fall under the jurisdiction of one, though the CFO tends to oversee the Finance Department instead, which deals with accounting and audits, while the Treasurer deals directly with company funds.

His father placed him under the care of the philosopher Caldini at Rimini but the youth soon ran away with a company of strolling players and returned to Venice.

Columbus has been home to many manufacturing companies, including Noblitt-Sparks Industries ( which built radios under the Arvin brand in the 1930s ) and Arvin Industries, now Meritor, Inc. After merging with Meritor Automotive on July 10, 2000, the headquarters of the newly created ArvinMeritor Industries was established in Troy, Michigan, the home of parent company, Rockwell International.

Sometimes a company will liquidate under chapter 11, in which the pre-existing management may be able to help get a higher price for divisions or other assets than a chapter 7 liquidation would be likely to achieve.

A company undergoing Chapter 11 reorganization is effectively operating under the " protection " of the court until it emerges.

In a wider sense, most companies in the UK are created under statute since the Companies Act 1985 specifies how a company may be created by a member of the public, but these companies are not called ' statutory corporations '.

While many of these systems involve cars permanently attached to the cable, the system developed by Poma-Otis, a company formed by the merger of the cable car interests of the Pomagalski ski lift company and the Otis Elevator Company, allows the car to be decoupled from the cable under computer control, and can thus be considered a modern interpretation of the cable car.