News by subject: LAW

The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) has revoked the service provider licence and imposed an administrative penalty of $200,000 against Gibson Wellness Centre Inc. (Gibson Centre), revoked the service provider licence...

The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) has refused to renew the Life, Accident and Sickness insurance agent licence issued to Stewart Edward Ranft (Ranft) and imposed administrative penalties of $28,000 on Ranft....

As the State of Florida defends its sexual offender registration system in two federal court cases challenging the law as unconstitutional, a proposed bill winding its way through the 2024 legislative session could throw Florida's sexual offender...

Today, Independent Women's Law Center (IWLC) filed its final brief in the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals demanding that Kappa Kappa Gamma leadership adhere to Kappa's governing documents, which limit membership to women....

The hearing of the application on January 25, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. in the above-named matter will proceed by videoconference.   Registrar, Governance & Tribunal SecretariatOntario Securities Commission SOURCE Ontario Securities Commission

A hearing has been scheduled before a hearing panel of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) under the Mutual Fund Dealer Rules to consider whether the panel should accept a settlement agreement entered into between Enforcement Staff...

The Tribunal issued an Order in the above-named matter.  A copy of the Order dated January 24, 2024 is available at capitalmarketstribunal.ca Registrar, Governance & Tribunal SecretariatOntario Securities Commission SOURCE Ontario Securities...

A hearing has been scheduled before a hearing panel of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) under the Mutual Fund Dealer Rules to consider whether the hearing panel should accept a settlement agreement entered into between...

The Lawfare Project (LP) together with attorneys David Elmaleh and Aaron Rosenberg of RE-LAW LLP, were able to secure a recent victory in the  claim filed on behalf of their client Shai DeLuca with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice....

A U.S. Federal Court's ruling in Meta v. Bright Data reaffirms the public's right to access and collect public web data. A summary judgment opinion states Bright Data did not violate Meta's terms of use when it scraped public web data from Meta and...

Yesterday, a class action complaint was filed in D.C. Superior Court against Walmart Inc. alleging that by advertising and offering goods without the intent to sell them as offered in their Washington, D.C., stores, Walmart violated the District of...

McCormack Suny LLC represents Acacia Clark and Gabriele Vigevani in a newly-filed suit against William Senné, and the two real estate and investment entities he owns and operates, the Senné Company, Inc. and Senné Capital, LLC....

In February, I am due to face a group of individuals and corporate entities in London's High Court, where I intend to uphold my intellectual property rights in Bitcoin as its creator. However, the focus of my various litigations to date has never...

Avet Pharmaceuticals Inc. ("Avet"), formerly known as Heritage Pharmaceuticals Inc., announced today that the Company has entered into a settlement agreement with a putative class of Direct Purchaser Plaintiffs (the "DPP Class Plaintiffs") in the...

After a five-day trial in the case of Guay v. Sig Sauer, Inc., the chief federal judge for the District of New Hampshire found that Kyle Guay did not pull the trigger of his Sig Sauer P320 when it discharged a round into his thigh in January 2020. ...

The Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions has released its witness list for the National Security Confidentiality public hearings that begin on January 29, 2024. The hearings, which will...

Following a settlement hearing held on June 19, 2023, in Toronto, Ontario, a hearing panel of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) under the Mutual Fund Dealer Rules accepted the settlement agreement dated March 28, 2023 between...

A hearing has been scheduled before a hearing panel of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) under the Investment Dealer and Partially Consolidated Rules in the matter of Clarus Securities Inc. (Clarus) and James Christodoulis. The...

A board-certified radiologist, senior shareholder, and employee of Consulting Radiologist Limited (CRL) was awarded $4.6 million in damages by a Hennepin County jury for being wrongfully terminated under Minnesota's whistleblower protection law....

Following the judgment by the Honorable Donald Bission, j.c.s., authorizing a class action against 118 public CHSLDs that had a major COVID-19 outbreak during one of the first two waves of the pandemic that hit Quebec in 2020 and 2021, the class...

New York City personal injury law firm Greenstein & Milbauer, LLP fights for those who have suffered fractures and other injuries due to slip and falls on snow and ice. The firm strives to obtain compensation for those injured due to these snow and...

Slater Vecchio LLP has filed two class actions on behalf of Canadians against Cineplex for failing to disclose at the outset of the ticket purchasing process the online booking fee that Cineplex charges on online ticket purchases. The two actions are...

The Tribunal issued an Order in the above-named matter. A copy of the Order dated January 22, 2024 is available at capitalmarketstribunal.ca Registrar, Governance & Tribunal SecretariatOntario Securities Commission SOURCE Ontario Securities...

A hearing on the merits in the matter of Zahir Lehri was held before a hearing panel of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) on November 13, 2023 and January 11, 2024.  After hearing submissions from Enforcement Staff and Zahir...

Approximately 16.6 million consumers are being notified that their confidential information was compromised when hackers were able to access the computer systems of LoanDepot. The data breach lawyers at Console & Associates, P.C. are investigating...

A hearing panel of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO), issued its Reasons for Decision dated March 10, 2023, in connection with a disciplinary hearing held electronically by videoconference in Toronto, Ontario on February 8,...

The Tribunal issued an Order and its Oral Reasons and Decision in the above-named matter.  A copy of the Order and Oral Reasons and Decision both dated January 22, 2024 are available at capitalmarketstribunal.ca Registrar, Governance & Tribunal...

Today, Do No Harm announced it voluntarily dropped a lawsuit against Health Affairs' Health Equity Fellowship for Trainees after Health Affairs eliminated its discriminatory racial eligibility requirements. In September 2022, Do No Harm filed a...

The mother of a 2-year-old girl is now suing Miss Bloomingdale's Academy in Irving, claiming her daughter was neglected and her life put in danger by the daycare center in October 2022. The suit states the little girl was not properly supervised by...

The Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada (MFDA), now Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO), commenced a disciplinary proceeding in respect of Andrew Kazina by Notice of Hearing dated June 4, 2020 (Notice of Hearing). The interim...

The Government of Canada is committed to protecting wildlife that may be at risk of overexploitation due to unsustainable or illegal trade. On January 10, 2024, Jeffrey Ross was fined a total of $20,000 at the Provincial Court of Manitoba after...

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK   IN RE iANTHUS CAPITAL HOLDINGS, INC. SECURITIES LITIGATION   No. 20-cv-03135-LAK No. 20-cv-03513-LAK   THIS DOCUMENT RELATES TO: Nos. 20-cv-03135 (Securities Class Action), 20-cv-03513...

UNITED STATES OF AMERICABefore theSECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGFile No. 3-20932 In the Matter ofHealth Insurance Innovations, Inc., now named Benefytt Technologies, Inc., and Gavin D. Southwell,Respondents. PLAN NOTICE...

A Washington state woman has filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit regarding her $3.6 million negligence lawsuit against Wells Fargo and Navy Federal Credit Union. The lawsuit, which concerns alleged fraudulent wire...

Attorney Zulu Ali and Attorney Whitney Ali are listed as two of the Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD), Law and Justice Edition (https://www.mipad.org/files/MIPAD-ANNOUNCEMENT-2022-Online-Version.pdf).  The Most Influential People of...

Legal-Bay, The Pre Settlement Funding Company, announced today that Johnson & Johnson has agreed to a $700MM settlement with various...

Shenzhen IVPS Technology Co., Ltd., a Shenzhen, China-based manufacturer of market-leading electronic nicotine delivery system ("ENDS") products, announced today that it has filed an appeal of FDA's marketing denial order for six of its popular...

On January 18, 2024, the Opioid Master Disbursement Trust II ("MDT II") won a key, opening victory in its case against Covidien Unlimited Company, Mallinckrodt's former parent, and three of its subsidiaries ("Covidien"), surviving a substantive...

The San Diego labor law attorneys at Zakay Law Group, APLC and JCL Law Firm, APC, filed a class action complaint against Wildcat Discovery Technologies, Inc. (hereinafter, "Wildcat Discovery Technologies") for allegedly failing to provide meal and...

Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Vanda) today announced that the United States Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C. denied in part the government's motion to dismiss Vanda's claim against the United States for the Food and Drug Administration's...

More than 18 months after the tragic school shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has released a 575-page report detailing critical failures by law enforcement and other officials responding to the massacre....

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP announced today that Josip Heit, GSB Gold Standard Corporation AG (GSB Germany), and certain GSB Germany subsidiaries have retained partners Alex Spiro and Avi Perry to represent them in connection with ongoing...

The B.C. Securities Commission (BCSC) will return funds to nine investors who were defrauded by Paul Se Hui Oei and Canadian Manu Immigration & Financial Services Inc.  A BCSC panel has ordered the distribution of $69,887.85, which the Commission...

Oved & Oved LLP, a boutique law firm based in New York, New York, today announced that the firm successfully petitioned the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to overturn a lower court's decision dismissing Mackage's complaint...

Mary Alexander, principal and founder of Mary Alexander & Associates, filed a lawsuit against the City of Manteca in San Joaquin Superior Court on behalf of the mother of a young man who was killed when he fell into an uncovered manhole. According...

The Task Force on Linguistic Policy has applied for an interlocutory injunction and judicial review of Bill 96, the changes to the Charter of the French Language. The injunction has been filed with Superior Court by Michael Bergman. Me. Bergman is...

The Tribunal issued an Order in the above-named matter. A copy of the Order dated January 18, 2024 is available at capitalmarketstribunal.ca   Registrar, Governance & Tribunal SecretariatOntario Securities Commission SOURCE Ontario Securities...

ACTS LAW filed a lawsuit on behalf of more than 130 women who allege they were sexually abused by prison staff at California Institution for Women ("CIW") in Chino, CA and Central California Women's Facility ("CCWF") located in Chowchilla, CA. The...

Californians for Homeownership, a nonprofit organization sponsored by the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) that aims to address California's housing crisis through impact litigation, announced today that it has settled its lawsuit against...

The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) refused to renew the Life, Accident and Sickness insurance agent licence and imposed an administrative penalty of 10,000 against Vineet Anand (Anand). ...