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Originally posted by ktsnake
Can some enterprising young attorney please take these textbook companies on in a class-action price fixing suit? I would truly love to see those people suffer
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Hehe, i laughed when i read that- I just finished learning all about class action suits (took my final on it yesterday).... unfortunately I have a few more years to go before I'm admitted to the bar. And class actions are hard as hell to put through........
But it would definately be something that i'd love to see go to court.
For years business have been taking advantage of young people in all sorts of ways, exercising semi-monopolies over us.
I need to look into another class action suit that's actually in the making for a company taking advantage of young people- one of the chain stores like Express or American Eagle is getting sued because they make their employees wear that season's clothes. The employees aren't making very much over minimum wage, so when you subject the money they need to spend on the clothes to work there from the amount of money they're making, they're making well less than minimum wage.
Whoever got the idea to bring that to suit is a genius. I was offered a job at American Eagle in HS, they were going to pay me more than the usual starting wage b/c I had a lot of retail experience (TJ Maxx), but it was still less than what I was making at TJ's, AND i had to buy their clothes. Nope, I thought that was shady, and I still think it is.
Sorry for the hijack!
