News by subject: LAW

Loews Corporation announced today that the Delaware Court of Chancery found no liability in connection with Loews's 2018 acquisition of the minority limited partner interests in its Boardwalk Pipelines subsidiary. "We are very pleased that the...

Josip Heit, the Chairman of GSB Gold Standard Corporation AG (GSB Germany), GSB Germany, and certain affiliated companies, brands, and platforms have reached a settlement to resolve the civil investigations of U.S. state securities regulators in...

The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) has issued a Notice of Hearing alleging that Atacama Resources International Inc. (Atacama) and its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Glenn Brian Grant (Grant), breached an ASC Cease Trade Order (CTO)....

PARRIS Law Firm attorneys filed an insurance bad faith lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against Geico Insurance following a $20 million wrongful death verdict the firm obtained in 2023. In 2023, a Los Angeles jury handed down a $20 million...

The Tribunal issued its Reasons for Decision on a Motion in the above-named matter. A copy of the Reasons for Decision on a Motion dated September 6, 2024 is available at capitalmarketstribunal.ca Registrar, Governance & Tribunal Secretariat Ontario...

On September 6, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential opinion in favor of McKool Smith client ParkerVision against Qualcomm. The appeal follows a summary judgment ruling issued on behalf of Qualcomm in April...

Legal-Bay LLC, the premier Pre Settlement Funding Company, reports that Johnson & Johnson has just added $1.2 BB to their previously agreed upon settlement. The pharmaceutical giant has been under fire for their talc-based baby powder which thousands...

JND Legal Administration  Proposed Settlements have been reached in an antitrust class action called In Re: Packaged Seafood Products Antitrust Litigation, No. 15-MD-2670 DMS (MSB) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of...

On Friday, the Brussels Market Court in Belgium ruled that Compagnie Maritime Belge (CMB) wrongly calculated the offer price of shares during its mandatory takeover of Euronav NV in February this year.  The court decided the value of each share...

FISSION URANIUM CORP.  ("Fission") announced today that the Supreme Court of British Columbia (the "Court") has granted the amendment to the interim order obtained from the Court on July 19, 2024 (the "Interim Order") authorizing the holding of and...

The RCMP, in partnership with the FBI, began an investigation which resulted in the arrest of Muhammad Shahzeb Khan in the town of Ormstown, Quebec on Wednesday, September 4, 2024. Khan was allegedly in the process of planning a deadly attack...

A federal lawsuit has been filed against Boar's Head Provisions of Sarasota, Florida in the Eastern District of Virginia on behalf of Barbara Schmidt of Virginia, who spent six days in ICU and weeks in recovery after consuming Boar's Head Liverwurst....

A sanctions hearing has been scheduled before a hearing panel of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) pursuant to the Investment Dealer and Partially Consolidated Rules in the matter of Joseph Debus. The hearing panel will...

Today, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Waco Division, issued an Order setting an expedited Preliminary Junction Hearing for September 19, 2024. The Order comes less than a day after Xockets, Inc., the inventor of advanced...

The case management hearing in the above-named matter scheduled to be heard on September 9, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. by videoconference will instead proceed at 20 Queen Street West, 17th Floor, Toronto, Ontario. Members of the public may observe the...

On August 24, a commercial truck arrived at the port of entry in Lansdowne, Ontario. The driver claimed that he had mistakenly crossed the border at the direction of his GPS. After Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers directed him to...

Ontario's financial services regulator, FSRA, has issued an Order against Higginson Equipment Inc. (Higginson). Higginson contravened...

After years of their concerns falling on deaf ears, three Napa wineries have joined forces to sue Napa County in federal court to address longstanding violations of constitutional rights. The participating wineries are Summit Lake Vineyard,...

Steel Dynamics, Inc.  today petitioned the Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to apply antidumping duties against imports of corrosion resistant flat rolled steel (CORE) from Australia, Brazil, Canada,...

Xockets, Inc., the inventor of advanced Data Processing Units, or "DPUs," that enable accelerated computing and artificial intelligence, or "AI," in cloud data centers, today filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western...

At 5:25 a.m. on September 3, inmate Yacine Zouaoui was apprehended by international partners. This inmate had been unlawfully at large from the minimum security unit at the Federal Training Centre since May 23, 2024. The Correctional Service of...

A recent news report in Roseville, CA highlighted a terrifying trend that two elder abuse attorneys are speaking out on. According to recent reports, a 90-year-old woman died after she was assaulted at a Roseville care facility, and a 77-year-old...

FISSION URANIUM CORP.  ("Fission") announced today that it intends to apply to the Supreme Court of British Columbia (the "Court") on September 6, 2024, to amend the interim order obtained from the Court on July 19, 2024 (the "Interim Order")...

The interim appearance scheduled for September 13, 2024 in this matter has been converted to a settlement hearing before a hearing panel of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) pursuant to the Mutual Fund Dealer Rules to consider a...

The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification International (FFWPUI) continues to seek justice in the United States against Hyun Jin "Preston" Moon and his codefendants for allegedly misappropriating $3 billion worth of Church assets. In a...

Bonanza Cannabis Company has responded to an unwarranted lawsuit attack against the company and its parent company, C2CC. In Bonanza's counterclaim, the company argues that Mammoth's lawsuit is baseless and represents an improper use of the legal...

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the total cost of insurance fraud is estimated to be more than $40 billion per year. Insurance fraud affects not only the insurance industry but also policyholders, who end up paying higher premiums...

Voltage, LLC secured a significant victory against Shoals Technologies Group. Last Friday, the International Trade Commission issued a crucial ruling in favor of Voltage, determining that our alternative LYNX design does not infringe Shoals' 153...

Legal-Bay Pre Settlement Funding reports an expansion of not one but two of their underwriting departments?personal injury and sexual harassment?in response to the alarming surge of lawsuit funding applications they have been receiving under these...

Marcel Roireau has been sentenced to twelve months of house arrest after pleading guilty in the Superior Court of Québec to rigging bids for paving contracts awarded by the ministère des Transports du Québec in and around the Granby region....

Today, the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs, issued the following statement: "I commend the United States for its recent decisive actions against individuals allegedly...

The third of 10 defendants who were sued earlier this year by MiMedx Group, Inc. today filed counterclaims against the company. Jake Heikkinen, a former MiMedx employee, states in the filing that he left the placental biologics company because of...

What is happening?public Indigenous communities from Matawa and Mushkegowuk Territories and the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) are co-leading the Regional Assessment in the Ring of Fire Area. The Ring of Fire area is located about 540...

At approximately 9:00 a.m. on September 3, 2024, inmate Dalton Checkosis was apprehended by the Prince Albert Detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This inmate had been unlawfully at large from the Prince Albert Grand Council, a...

The hearing to approve the $530 million settlement of three class actions will occur at the Law Courts Complex (408 York Avenue) on September 5 and 6, 2024....

Between February 1st, 2016 and September 26th, 2018, Marc Primeau inappropriately used his position as an employee at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) to direct purchases totalling $231,663.48 from ISED to Access Security...

Over 290 more names were added to the list of people who allegedly endured all manner of sexual misconduct at the hands of staff and guards at L.A. County's infamous juvenile detention camps. According to the complaint, the abusers included...

A disciplinary hearing was held before a hearing panel of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) pursuant to the Mutual Fund Dealer Rules in the matter of Antony Kin San Chau on July 23, 2024. The hearing will continue on September...

JND Legal Administration Proposed Settlements have been reached in In Re: Packaged Seafood Products Antitrust Litigation, No. 15-md-2670 DMS (MSB), MDL No. 2670, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California (the...

Amplify, the nation's leading boutique legal digital marketing agency, is calling attention to the disturbing revelations published on Sunday by the New York Times, which revealed deeply troubling allegations against the operator of 50 psychiatric...

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), on Friday, August 30th, formally withdrew all charges against Jeremy Schulman, a founding member of Schulman Bhattacharya and Chairman of the firm's Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Group. The...

According to a Department of Justice press release, a former Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, attorney has pleaded guilty to tax evasion for the year 2016, after concealing substantial legal fees he earned. This case highlights the serious consequences...

Legal-Bay Pre Settlement Funding has seen a rise in lawsuit loan applications due to boating accidents, not surprising considering summer is prime watersports season. Recent boating accident lawsuits in New Jersey have already been settled in several...

The Competition Appeal Tribunal (the "Tribunal") ordered that the claims, brought by the Class Representatives, Commercial and Interregional Card Claims I & II Limited, be certified, enabling the Class Representatives to seek compensation for...

Legal Notice If you sold platinum or palladium futures contracts traded on NYMEX, sold platinum or palladium call options traded on NYMEX, or bought platinum or palladium put options traded on NYMEX from January 1, 2008 through November 30, 2014, you...

CONLAMIC, represented by William J. Sanchez, P.A., is an organization of over 15,000 latino pastors, ministers, churches and synagogues that fight for the marginalized in the United States of America.  In 2010, CONLAMIC was the first organization to...

Berger Montague (Canada) PC, a Toronto-based law firm that focuses on representing investors in cross-border shareholder disputes, announces that a shareholder class action was issued against Chesswood Group Limited a company that is subject to the...

Illumina, Inc. , a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, welcomes the European Court of Justice's (ECJ's) judgment today ruling that the European Commission did not have jurisdiction over Illumina's acquisition of GRAIL....

Today, millions of DIRECTV, DIRECTV STREAM, and U-verse customers lost access when Walt Disney Co. pulled its programming despite attempts by DIRECTV to reach new, multi-billion-dollar licensing agreements for a broad range of programming, including...