News by subject: LAW

According to a Department of Justice press release, a Maryland business owner and his Texas tax preparer were recently charged with engaging in a tax fraud scheme, potentially resulting in time in federal prison. This story exemplifies the severe...

Grossman Law Offices, with its principal office in Dallas, Texas, is issuing a public notification about a serious truck accident involving Shannon Balsley on December 21, 2023, just before 3:00 PM along Farm to Market 1044 in Guadalupe County, TX....

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

This morning, the Humane Society of Missouri's (HSMO) Animal Cruelty Task Force (ACT) ? one of the nation's largest animal-rescue and disaster-response teams ? conducted a rescue of 95 Labrador Retrievers from the facility of an unlicensed breeder in...

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 a matter of Joseph Debus. The hearing is open to the public, unless the...

Following a settlement hearing held on October 27, 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 October 4, 2023 between...

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) is warning Ontario investors that the following companies are not registered to deal or advise in securities in Ontario: Masscoin.vipBitrade-MarketAEX Crypto aka AEXCryptoatCost aka Crypto at...

Following a settlement hearing held on March 21, 2023, in Vancouver, British Columbia, a hearing panel of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) under the Mutual Fund Dealer Rules accepted the settlement agreement dated March 20, 2023...

PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY.This notice explains your rights and options to exercise them. A Settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit between Defendant George Washington University et al. ("Defendant" or "GW") and certain...

Rusoro Mining Ltd.  (the "Company" or "Rusoro") announces that last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that various parties holding judgments against the Republic of Venezuela, including Rusoro Mining Ltd., were entitled to...

A North Vancouver investment firm and two employees have paid a combined $55,000 for failing to ensure investments were suitable for clients. Matthew Herbert Calvert admitted that he recommended five unsuitable investments to three investors between...

On December 20, 2023, after more than three weeks of trial, San Diego Attorneys Jordon Harlan, Andrew Hillier and Francis DiGiacco received an impressive jury award of $9,372,000 in a California Family Rights Act retaliation case against Concentra...

Grossman Law Offices, with its principal office in Dallas, Texas, is notifying the public about a serious truck accident involving an 18-year-old that happened on December 11, 2023, at approximately 3:00 PM in Henderson....

As cases surge across the country, the Pritzker Hageman food safety lawyers are actively investigating the rapidly expanding Salmonella Sundsvall outbreak linked to Machilita and Rudy brand cantaloupe. Pritzker Hageman filed the first outbreak...

In response to U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon's January 3, 2023, ruling to deny a motion by LegitScript, LLC for summary judgment and to stay discovery in an antitrust lawsuit filed against it by PharmacyChecker.com, LLC, PharmacyChecker's...

Slater Vecchio LLP has filed a class action lawsuit in British Columbia on behalf of all persons in Canada, excluding residents of Québec, who purchased or claim to have fallen ill from consuming cantaloupes or other products that may have been...

Toxin Free USA ("TFUSA") and ALDI have agreed to a resolution and dismissal of TFUSA's consumer protection action. TFUSA filed a complaint in the D.C Superior Court against ALDI in May 2021 under D.C.'s consumer protection law, alleging that a...

The following merits hearing dates have changed in the above-named matter: the previously scheduled day of January 26, 2024 will not be used for the hearing; andthe hearing will continue on February 7, 2024 at 11:30 a.m. at the offices of the...

In a landmark decision, released on December 20, 2023, the Court of Appeal for Ontario has affirmed the groundbreaking $1.5 million punitive damages award by a Toronto jury in the case of Baker vs. Blue Cross Life Insurance Company of Canada,...

TO: All persons and entities who, during the period between November 14, 2016 through December 8, 2021 inclusive, purchased or otherwise acquired the common stock of Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Reata" or the "Company") (the "Settlement Class"),...

REGENXBIO Inc. today announced the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware granted Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (Sarepta) summary judgment on invalidity in a patent infringement suit arising from Sarepta's manufacture and use of cultured host...

Prime Medicine, Inc. ("Prime Medicine") and Myeloid Therapeutics, Inc. ("Myeloid"), today announced resolution of all of their outstanding disputes, signaling an end to the pending arbitrations and a positive outcome for both parties. "I am happy...

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox secured a victory on behalf of Teva Pharmaceuticals in the U.S. Court District Court for the District of New Jersey in a case involving a patent-infringement suit filed by Corcept Therapeutics. On December 29, 2023,...

On January 2, 2024, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox earned a patent infringement victory at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for client SweeGen Inc. regarding a natural non-caloric sweetener used in food and drinks. The Federal...

The Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada (MFDA), now Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO), commenced a disciplinary proceeding in respect of Leszek Dziadecki by Notice of Hearing dated August 3, 2022, amended December 19, 2022 (...

An initial appearance has been scheduled before a hearing panel of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) under the Mutual Fund Dealer Rules to set a date for a disciplinary hearing in the matter of Juan Carlos Saavedra. The initial...

Grand Canyon University received notice this week that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has initiated yet another risk-based audit against the school, just eight months after GCU successfully refuted the agency's last audit....

Today, medical watchdog Do No Harm filed a lawsuit against Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards due to unlawful racial mandates requiring the governor to exclude non-minority candidates for a certain number of positions of the Louisiana State Board of...

Notice of Class ActionBultemeyer v. CenturyLink Inc.,Case No. 2:14-cv-02530-SPL (D. Ariz.) A class action lawsuit has been certified against CenturyLink Inc., now known as Lumen Technologies, Inc. ("Lumen"). The lawsuit alleges Lumen violated the...

Therabody, the leader in tech wellness and percussive massage therapy, announced today that it will be vigorously defending itself in the recent patent infringement lawsuit filed by Hyperice on January 2, 2024....

An initial appearance has been scheduled before a hearing panel of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) under the Mutual Fund Dealer Rules to set a date for a disciplinary hearing in the matter of Sandly Alteon. The initial...

A Hearing Panel of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization ("CIRO"), has issued its Reasons for Decision dated December 13, 2023 ("Reasons"), in connection with a disciplinary hearing held electronically by videoconference in Vancouver,...

A hearing has been scheduled before a hearing panel of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) under the Mutual Fund Dealer Rules in a matter between Enforcement Staff and Joshua Emanuel Mifsud. The hearing is open to the public,...

On December 15, 2023, a hearing panel of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) accepted a settlement agreement, with sanctions, between Enforcement Staff and HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc. (HSBC Securities). HSBC Securities admitted...

After a renowned career spanning 30 years, Joseph Guiliano, the esteemed Co-founder and Managing Partner of Haley Guiliano, LLP, is retiring from the practice of law. Effective January 1, 2024, Mr. Guiliano will step into a new chapter as he assumes...

The Lawfare Project (LP) and Diamond and Diamond Lawyers announced today that they have filed a $77 million class action lawsuit (Court File Number CV-24-00712229-00CP) against McMaster University and the McMaster Students Union. The plaintiffs in...

Landore Resources Limited (AIM: LND) ("Landore Resources" or the "Company") announces that it has conditionally raised £600,000 before expenses by way of a placing (the "Placing") and a subscription (the "Subscription") of, in aggregate, 25,000,000...

Aimia Inc. ("Aimia" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has entered into a settlement agreement with Christopher Mittleman ("Christopher") to withdraw all legal proceedings between Aimia and Christopher (the "Settlement...

Ted D. Kellner, Todd Deutsch and Robert L. Chioini (collectively, the "Kellner Group") today  issue the following statement in connection with their efforts to bring accountability to the entrenched, incumbent Board of Directors (the "Board") of AIM...

Richman Law & Policy client Andrew Gibson has settled his lawsuit against Bartlett Dairy, Inc. and Farmland Fresh Dairies, LLC. The lawsuit alleged and defendants deny, that the "No Antibiotics" label used on Farmland Fresh Dairies-branded...

Grossman Law Offices, with its principal office in Dallas, Texas, is reporting on a tragic truck accident that occurred in Upshur County, Texas. This incident, which took place on December 8, 2023, just before 6:00 PM along U.S. Highway 271, resulted...

Grossman Law Offices, with its principal office in Dallas, Texas, is bringing attention to a heartbreaking accident in Livingston, Texas, involving a school bus and an 18-wheeler, as originally reported by CBS 19. This tragic incident, which occurred...

On December 18, 2023, a hearing panel of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) accepted a settlement agreement, with sanctions, between Enforcement Staff and Robert Weston Crocker. Robert Weston Crocker admitted to the following...

The Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) is warning Canadian investors not to be fooled by noura-benimners. On their website, noura-benimners.com, the company falsely claims to be regulated by the former Investment Industry Regulatory...

A sanctions 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 Donald Warren Metcalfe. The hearing panel will...

Omnia Medical, a medical device company committed to providing the industry with innovative solutions utilizing proven techniques, announced that a trial date has been set for October 2024 in its ongoing lawsuit with PainTEQ. The trial is part of a...

JDASC and CMTLabs founder, John Deters stated "Mr. Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist, is scheduled to appear in court to prove he is Satoshi Nakamoto beginning on February 5th. Mr. Wright claims he created bitcoin and the bitcoin...

Snapchat will need to answer to a judge and jury for its role in the sale of fake drugs containing lethal amounts of fentanyl, a California judge ruled late yesterday. ...

On Friday, December 29, 2023, Aqua Texas filed a federal civil complaint against the Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District and its Board of Directors for unlawful and unequal treatment of the utility in complete disregard for Aqua Texas's...

The Coalition for Fair Trade in Shopping Bags (the "Coalition") is pleased with the preliminary determinations by the United States Department of Commerce ("Commerce") that imports of paper shopping bags into the United States from Cambodia, China,...