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WANG v. THE HEARST CORP.

Docket No. 16-3302. August Term, 2017.

877 F.3d 69 (2017)

Xuedan WANG, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated, Matthew Jordan Wagster, Erin E. Spencer, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated, Alexandra Rappaport, Sarah Wheels, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Jessica Ann Best, Paul Vance, Courtney Holt, Janet E. Glazier, Rebecca E. Dixon, Erin D. Sullivan, Carly Rockwell, Dana Lynn Vogel, Elizabeth Mancini, Stephanie Lauren Skorko, Caitlin Leszuk, Plaintiffs, v. THE HEARST CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: December 8, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rachel Bien ( Juno Turner , on the brief), Outten & Golden LLP, New York, New York, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Rachel Geman , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, New York, New York, for amici curaie American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO; Economic Policy Institute; Intern Worker Alliance; National Employment Lawyers Association; National Employment Law Project; Service Employees International Union; United Food and Commercial Workers International Union; Writers Guild of America, East, AFL-CIO; Professor Scott Moss ; Ross Perlin ; and Professor David C. Yamada , in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Eve Burton , Jonathan R. Donnellan , Kristina E. Findikyan , Jennifer D. Bishop , Hearst Corporation, New York, New York, office, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: JACOBS, CABRANES and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

I

The question is whether Hearst furnishes bona fide for-credit internships or whether it exploits student-interns to avoid hiring and compensating entry-level employees. The factual record is voluminous and advances multiple narratives, some of them contradictory; but the following essentials are undisputed...

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