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One Of These Interns Is Not Like The Others: How The Eleventh Circuit Misapplied The “Tweaked Primary Beneficiary” Test To Required Clinical Internships, Samuel C. Goodman Aug 2016

One Of These Interns Is Not Like The Others: How The Eleventh Circuit Misapplied The “Tweaked Primary Beneficiary” Test To Required Clinical Internships, Samuel C. Goodman

University of Miami Law Review

Today’s ever-changing business environment continues to challenge the traditional educational model, further blurring the line between learning and labor. This has resulted in great uncertainty as to the proper legal treatment of the student intern, specifically the unpaid student intern.

This Note is intended to introduce a new perspective to the unpaid internship debate and highlight the need for courts to focus on the specific type of internship at issue before formulating an approach to best assess whether the intern should be classified as an employee entitled to wages. Part I of the Article will discuss the Fair Labor Standards …