Craigslist has sued or issued cease-and-desist letters to dozens of startups in recent years.
SideCar has faced regulatory challenges, including a cease-and-desist letter from the California Public Utilities Commission.
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That search showed that in 1991 Connecticut had brought a cease-and-desist action against Orion Products Corp.
"If we find a carrier violates our rules, we can issue fines and cease-and-desist orders, " he said.
Health officials in New York issued cease-and-desist notices to a dozen or so testing companies last April.
Then her singing career hit a bump in the road when she was slapped with a cease-and-desist order.
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It has also sent cease-and-desist letters to Internet service providers, including universities, telling them to stop their users' illegal downloading.
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That database, not carried on the Web, showed that in 1991 Connecticut had brought a cease-and-desist action against Orion Products Corp.
It alleged that Littleton also sent cease-and-desist letters to retailers in which he falsely claimed to own trademark rights to Spirit.
No one does, because no one believes OPEC would pay the least bit of attention to a cease-and-desist order on WTO letterhead.
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Newegg responded, according to WSJ, by posting a cease-and-desist letter on Facebook.
Vancouver-based Zite was sent a cease-and-desist letter in March by multiple media companies who alleged copyright violations, according to All Things Digital.
Lyft, the ride-sharing startup, along with other startups, was recently fined and issued a cease-and-desist order by the California Public Utilities Commission.
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The duo had chosen "Juno, " after the Roman goddess, but got hit with a cease-and-desist letter from a plus-size women's clothing outfit of the same name.
Partner Hugh McFarland, a guitar repairman, designed a model that borrowed elements from classic basses--and drew a cease-and-desist order from Fender Musical Instruments for trademark infringement.
The fate of whoever decided it would be a good idea to send a cease-and-desist letter to some archaeologists in the first place is not yet known.
In the three months since the green coffee segment aired, lawyers for Oz have sent numerous cease-and-desist letters in an effort to get the ads taken down.
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The removal of content usually involves polite take-down requests that occasionally escalate into cease-and-desist letters and legal threats when necessary, says the company's chief executive, Michael Fertik.
Clearly, somebody realized that amateur programmers using the Kinect for cool, creative projects was great advertising for Microsoft, while marching in with jackboots and cease-and-desist orders wasn't.
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Expedia sent a cease-and-desist letter to SideStep, to little avail.
On May 18, PatientsLikeMe sent a cease-and-desist letter to Nielsen.
Hundreds of cease-and-desist letters were slapped on competing studio owners.
Under his real name, he (or his companies) had been hit with cease-and-desist orders from state regulators for selling unregistered securities in Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin and Nevada.
The rock band Silversun Pickups this week served Romney's campaign with a cease-and-desist order after it says Romney's campaign used its song "Panic Switch" at an event earlier this month.
Many geeks who scoffed at Best Buy's cease-and-desist letter on Facebook surmised that the company was really miffed about a recent Newegg commercial which might have hit too close to home.
You may recall that shortly after Zite launched, it was hit with cease-and-desist orders from a slew of leading news companies and had to alter the way it displays some of their articles.
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The news, and accompanying cease-and-desist order, was a blow to billionaire power couple Lynda and Stewart Resnick, who own Pom and a couple of other small, but relatively well-known brands like Fiji Water and Teleflora.
Fendi sent Burlington a cease-and-desist letter, but when the retail chain kept selling the bags, Fendi filed a new lawsuit in 2006 against Burlington for violation of trademark and for contempt of the 1987 injunction.
Investors were probably also unaware that Sweesy had been convicted of mail and wire fraud in 1984, a fact revealed by the Texas State Securities Board in a cease-and-desist order against Sweesy on May 23, 2003.
"We didn't know it was a Fox pilot, we just knew it was funny, " explains Richman, who quickly removed it upon receiving a cease-and-desist letter from the studio, which still owned the rights to the pilot.
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