News by subject: LAW

The following is a statement from attorney Rusty Hardin on the outcome of the impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. I want to praise the Texas House of Representatives and their appointed House managers for having the courage to...

The lawsuit claims that PillPack LLC ("PillPack" or "Defendant") violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") when prerecorded or artificial voice calls promoting PillPack's services were placed to cellular telephones between March 13,...

TO: RECORD AND BENEFICIAL HOLDERS OF GW PHARMACEUTICALS, PLC. ("GW") AMERICAN DEPOSITARY SHARES FROM MARCH 10, 2021 THROUGH AND INCLUDING MAY 5, 2021, THE DATE OF THE CONSUMMATION OF GW'S MERGER WITH JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS, PLC (THE "MERGER"),...

ESET has welcomed a California federal jury's ruling in its favor, finding that the leading digital security provider has not committed patent infringement on Finjan Holdings LLC technologies. The court case focused on a number of ESET's products...

Limestone Bank (now Peoples Bank) ("Limestone") responded to a data security incident that involved personal information of some individuals. As of April 30, 2023, Limestone Bank merged into Peoples Bank; however, the incident occurred before the...

Trial lawyers from Houston's Susman Godfrey, LLP, and Heim, Payne & Chorush, LLP, have won a $37.5 million patent infringement verdict on behalf of Texas-based Atlas Global Technologies Inc. against China-based TP-Link Technologies Inc. The verdict...

The IRS moratorium on new Employee Retention Tax Credit filings announced Thursday afternoon, September 14, should have taxpayers quaking in their boots. At unprecedented levels, the IRS is going after fraud and all responsible parties for...

Yermek Alimov, a prominent Kazakh businessman, has issued a claim against Abdumalik Mirakhmedov, Rashit Makhat, Andrey Kim (collectively known as MMK) and Genesis Digital Assets Limited in the High Court of England and Wales.  The claim relates to...

The Vallejo, CA City Council met behind closed doors Tuesday night, September 12, 2023, and approved a $900,000 pretrial settlement in the case of Police Captain John Whitney who had been terminated after blowing the whistle on the badge bending...

A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit against Reynolds Consumer Products, Inc. and Reynolds Consumer Products, LLC ("Reynolds" or the "Defendant"). Plaintiffs allege that Reynolds's use of the claim "Recycling" on the packaging of...

Trial lawyers from Houston's Susman Godfrey, LLP, and Heim, Payne & Chorush, LLP, have won a $37.5 million patent infringement verdict on behalf of Texas-based Atlas Global Technologies Inc. against China-based TP-Link Technologies Inc. The verdict...

Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH), owner of Miami International Securities Exchange, LLC (MIAX®), MIAX PEARL, LLC (MIAX Pearl®), MIAX Emerald, LLC (MIAX Emerald®), Minneapolis Grain Exchange, LLC (MGEXTM), LedgerX LLC (LedgerX), The Bermuda...

The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) has initiated enforcement action against Millicent Prince (Prince)....

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) announced today that Sung Oh Chung, of Thornhill, Ontario, was sentenced in the Toronto Courthouse on September 12, 2023, to a conditional sentence of two years less a day and a fine of $681,235, after pleading guilty...

In 2022, the Plaintiff and class members were only partially successful in the Estabrooks sex abuse class action trial. Today, the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick overturned portions of the trial judgment that were decided against the survivors....

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is committed to keeping our communities safe.  Following an investigation initiated by the Canada Border Services Agency, Mr. Guy Jr. Thibault appeared at the Montréal courthouse on August 16 and 17, where he...

New industry research reveals how private credit fund managers are increasingly providing investors with customised exposure to the asset class.  Published by the Alternative Credit Council, the private credit affiliate of the Alternative Investment...

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is committed to disrupting criminal activity and keeping prohibited weapons out of our communities....

BioSteel Sports Nutrition Inc. ("BioSteel") today announced that it sought and obtained an initial order for creditor protection (the "Initial Order") from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) (the "CCAA Court") under...

A National Press Club press freedom honoree who has been battling attempts to deport him to a country where he was threatened with death finally has won asylum in the United States....

Dozens of people have food poisoning after eating at Kumo Sushi of Stony Brook last week.  12 people were rushed to the Emergency Room at Stony Brook University Hospital. Suffolk County Department of Health investigators cited Kumo Sushi of Stony...

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 prevailed in its lawsuit...

Dozens of people have food poisoning after eating at Kumo Sushi & Steakhouse in Stony Brook last week.  12 people were rushed to the Emergency Room at Stony Brook University Hospital. Suffolk County Department of Health investigators cited Kumo...

Take notice that the merits hearing in the above-named matter scheduled to be heard on September 14, 2023 will not proceed as scheduled. Registrar, Governance & Tribunal SecretariatOntario Securities Commission SOURCE Ontario Securities Commission

An appearance has been scheduled before a hearing panel of the Investment Dealer Division of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) for the purpose of setting a date for a disciplinary hearing in the matter of Lucie Roland. The set...

On June 28, 2023, the numbered company 1269039 BC Ltd. (multiple partners)?which owns the Canadian commercial fishing vessel, Ocean Provider?was sentenced in Port Alberni Provincial Court. The company pleaded guilty to fishing for albacore tuna...

ThroughTek Co., Ltd. has remained committed to developing P2P connection technology since its inception. This technology is designed to address the complexities of fixed IP connection configurations and the high costs associated with video...

Take notice of the merits hearing time change on September 13, 2023, in the above-named matter. The hearing on September 13, 2023, scheduled to commence at 10:00 a.m. will instead commence at 11:00 a.m.  Registrar, Governance & Tribunal...

The Government of Canada is committed to protecting Canadian and foreign species of wild animals and plants that are, or may be, at risk due to unsustainable or illegal trade. On September 12, 2023, Cyril D'Souza, an Ontario taxidermist, pleaded...

McCune Law Group, APC, (MLG), in concert with attorneys and law firms from around the country in the largest multi-district litigation (MDL) in United States history, has successfully secured a settlement from multi-national corporate giant 3M. This...

A motion has been scheduled before a Hearing Panel of the Mutual Fund Dealer Division of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) in the matter of Adib Khaldi. The motion is open to the public, unless the hearing panel orders...

The Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada ("MFDA"), now Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization ("CIRO"), commenced a disciplinary proceeding in respect of Zahir Hussain Lehri (the "Respondent") by Notice of Hearing dated October 13, 2022...

The Tribunal issued an Order in the above-named matter.  A copy of the Order dated September 11, 2023 is available at capitalmarketstribunal.ca Registrar, Governance & Tribunal SecretariatOntario Securities Commission SOURCE Ontario Securities...

Ecopetrol issues the following response in relation to the statement on September 8, 2023 by McDermott International regarding its intention to start financial restructuring proceedings for its CB&I subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and the...

Take notice that an attendance in the above named matter is scheduled to be heard on September 13, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. Registrar, Governance & Tribunal SecretariatOntario Securities Commission SOURCE Ontario Securities Commission

The lawsuit claims that Virginia Mason placed tracking pixels that transmit patients' personally identifiable information, their status as patients of Virginia Mason, and their communications with Virginia Mason to Facebook, Google, Signal, and The...

Pitkin County, Colorado Court Judge Ashley Andrews on September 4, 2023, signed an order dismissing all charges against Andrew Barroway stemming from a...

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTNORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA CASEY ROBERTS, individually and on behalf of all other similarly situated,                                                                                         Plaintiff,                ...

Adventus Mining Corporation ("Adventus")   and Salazar Resources Limited ("Salazar")   (collectively the "Participants") are pleased to provide an update from the writ issued by the Constitutional Court of Ecuador (the "Court"), which follows the...

National Food Poisoning Lawyer Jory Lange is investigating the Kumo Sushi & Steakhouse Food Poisoning Outbreak. The restaurant was issued 15 violations after 28 people got food poisoning on Saturday. 12 people were rushed to the Emergency Room at...

The attorneys for Scott Smith (Bill Stanley of the Stanley Law Group and Mike Joynes of Joynes and Gaidies), the father of the Stone Bridge High School student who was sexually assaulted in the girls' restroom (by a boy claiming to be "gender...

On Friday September 8, 2023, a St. Louis County jury decided, after hearing all the evidence, that United Brands Products Design Development and Marketing, Inc. (an international distributor of nitrous oxide) and Coughing Cardinal, LLC (a local head...

AutoCanada Inc. ("AutoCanada" or the "Company") , a multi-location North American automobile dealership group, and CanadaOne Auto Group ("CanadaOne Auto"), a multi-location automobile dealership group operating dealerships across Canada, announced...

Today, Danco filed a cert petition asking the Supreme Court to review the Fifth Circuit's decision invalidating changes FDA approved to the conditions of use for Mifeprex® in 2016 and in 2021. That decision is inconsistent with established Supreme...

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

Burford Capital Limited, the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law, today releases the following statement in connection with the September 8, 2023 Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law (the "Ruling") issued by the United...

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

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) announced that Kwang Won Lee, of Mississauga, Ontario, was sentenced in the Toronto Courthouse on September 7, 2023, to a conditional sentence of two years less a day and a fine of $999,000, after pleading guilty on...

Burford Capital Limited, the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law, today announces that the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has released its decision concerning damages and interest in the...

Urbx is pleased to announce that Attabotics and Urbx have amicably resolved the litigation between them. As noted in the parties' joint motion to dismiss dated June 12, 2023, which was granted by the district court, the parties have reached a mutual...