News by subject: LAW

On March 10, Attorney James Stoltz of Gerling Law Injury Attorneys filed a lawsuit on behalf of a female inmate who claimed to have been sexually abused at the Webster County Jail. The lawsuit comes after the Webster County Detention Center failed to...

Ecopetrol S.A. informs that the International Chamber of Commerce decided in favor of Refinería de Cartagena S.A.S ("Reficar"), a subsidiary company of Ecopetrol S.A., in the framework of an arbitration proceeding against Chicago Bridge & Iron...

This notice is further to the Superior Court of Quebec judgment dated August 3, 2022 (file number 500-06-001078-209) which authorized a class action against MGM Resorts International ("MGM") regarding a data breach which occurred on or about July 7,...

The Tribunal issued an Order in the above-named matter. A copy of the Order dated June 7, 2023 is available at capitalmarketstribunal.ca    Registrar, Governance & Tribunal SecretariatOntario Securities Commission SOURCE Ontario Securities...

Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization ("CIRO") announced that it has issued a Notice of Settlement Hearing dated May 31, 2023, regarding the presentation, review and consideration of a proposed settlement agreement by a Hearing Panel of the...

American Outdoor Brands, Inc. , an industry leading provider of products and accessories for outdoor enthusiasts, on May 30, 2023, filed a complaint against Vista Outdoor Brands ("Vista") alleging that Vista is infringing American Outdoor Brands'...

A federal judge has found Canadian Pacific to be in contempt of court after the company forced train crews to work excessively long hours in violation of a court order to abide by the collective agreement and Transport Canada regulations. The...

Attorneys with Arias Sanguinetti filed multiple lawsuits against...

Sig Sauer, Inc., a New Hampshire manufacturer of handguns, has been sued for causing the death of 21 year old Dalton Harrell of Bainbridge Georgia on December 15, 2021. Dalton was a student at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee Florida and a star...

Promosome LLC, represented by Susman Godfrey, has filed major patent infringement actions against pharmaceutical behemoths Moderna, Pfizer, and BioNTech.  The suits allege that the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines produced by these companies violate...

Bloomberg Law today announced the availability of a Patent Litigation report that draws on its comprehensive federal intellectual property law dockets from across the country from 2022 and provides a data-driven analysis of patent claims filed in...

The Coalition For Change, Inc. (C4C) today released its report titled: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Unmet Mission: Challenges Impacting Prompt, Fair, and Impartial Processing of Federal Employees'...

Since 2018, Silver Miller (www.SilverMillerLaw.com) -- one of the leading cryptocurrency investor law firms in America, and the only law firm in America to successfully prosecute a class action lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase -- has...

Texas Lawyer has announced its "Top Verdicts & Settlements of Texas 2022" list. National Trial Law is proud to announce that it has been included in this selection for the $230,331,884.46 Sutherland Springs shooting verdict won by the law firm's...

The Dominguez Firm, a leading personal injury law firm, is pleased to announce that three of its trial attorneys, Patricia Alabise, Analicia Avila, and Angella Farokhzad, have been selected for inclusion in the highly regarded 2023 Super Lawyers®...

The following statement is being issued by Levi & Korsinsky, LLP: On December 20, 2019, a putative class and derivative lawsuit...

The Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada, now New Self-Regulatory Organization of Canada ("New SRO"), commenced a disciplinary proceeding in respect of Antonio Luciano (the "Respondent") by Notice of Hearing dated December 6, 2022 (the "Notice...

Équité Association recommends a layered approach to combat the dramatic increase in Canadian vehicle thefts TORONTO, June 6, 2023 /CNW/ Today, Équité Association released its 2022 Vehicle Theft Trend Report, and the numbers are staggering. For the...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled in favor of Enigma Software Group USA, LLC ("Enigma") that it can proceed with its lawsuit against Malwarebytes on its claims that Malwarebytes has engaged in anticompetitive conduct, false...

Alkermes plc  today announced that on May 31, 2023 it received a final award (the Final Award) from the arbitral tribunal (the Tribunal) in its arbitration proceedings with Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V. (Janssen), a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, in...

The lawyers of For the Refugees, an NGO dedicated to refugee rights, announced today that they are filing a lawsuit in Federal Court against Canadian authorities on behalf of their client, Ajith Pushpa Kumara Debagama Kankanamalage. The legal action...

Greenbrook TMS Inc. ("Greenbrook" or the "Company") announced today that the sellers of Check Five LLC (d/b/a "Success TMS") ("Success TMS") have filed a complaint in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware against the Company, TMS NeuroHealth...

Today's action by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) comes after extensive cooperation and recent good-faith negotiations. We are disappointed that the SEC chose to file a complaint today against Binance seeking, among other remedies,...

Finding no avenues for justice in Canada, the family of murdered Mexican environment defender Mariano Abarca have filed a groundbreaking complaint against Canada at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)....

An American driver was arrested after attempting to enter Canada with 181 kg of cannabis and over $602,985 US in his vehicle, at the Rainbow Bridge border crossing in Niagara Falls, Canada. On May 2, 2023, an American driver was following GPS...

As authorities investigate a Shigella outbreak linked to the Cabos San Lucas restaurant at 1636 N. Texana, Hallettsville, Texas, 77964, a woman has filed a Shigella lawsuit against Cabos San Lucas. She allegedly got Shigella food poisoning after...

A settlement hearing in the matter of Charles Leigh Hogg (the "Respondent") was held electronically by videoconference on May 16, 2023 in Toronto, Ontario before a three-member Hearing Panel of the Ontario District Hearing Committee of the New...

Millions of consumers are being notified that their Social Security numbers and other highly sensitive information were compromised when hackers breached the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care computer system earlier this year. The data breach lawyers at...

The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) has revoked a life insurance and accident and sickness agent licence of Yogender Jain (Jain), and imposed administrative penalties in the total amount of $100,000 against Jain and...

Authorities are racing to determine the source of a Shigella outbreak in Lavaca County. Multiple people have become ill after eating at a location in Lavaca County. Texas Department of State Health Services are testing food at the location and...

Today, First Liberty Institute and the law firm Cooper & Kirk, PLLC, filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Wendy Faustin, a pro-life advocate and sidewalk counselor, in the United States District Court of Colorado, claiming that state and local...

The Tribunal issued an Order in the above-named matter. A copy of the Order dated June 1, 2023 is available at capitalmarketstribunal.ca Registrar, Governance & Tribunal SecretariatOntario Securities Commission SOURCE Ontario Securities Commission

The following statement is being issued by Kroll Settlement Administration regarding the Google Search Engine Settlement. Si desea recibir esta notificación en español, llámenos o visite nuestra página web. A proposed Settlement has been reached in a...

Global law firm Ropes & Gray announced today that Eric Behl-Remijan, a leading tax attorney, has joined the firm as a partner, based in the firm's 500-lawyer New York office. Ropes & Gray continues to expand its market-leading M&A and deal...

A protective order hearing has been scheduled before a hearing panel of the Investment Dealer Division of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) in the matter of Gravitas Securities Inc. (Gravitas). CIRO Staff will seek an order...

The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) and the Alberta RCMP Federal Policing Integrated Market Enforcement Team (IMET) announce that William Jordan McBean of Calgary was sentenced to seven years in jail by Justice W. Patrick Sullivan of the Court of...

The following is a statement from Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien on the Supreme Court's ruling today in Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No. 174, which opens the door for corporations to sue...

The Commissioner of Canada Elections (CCE), Caroline J. Simard, announced today the publication of 16 administrative monetary penalties (AMPs) and an undertaking to address violations under the Canada Elections Act (the Act). In order to maintain...

Marrone Law Firm, LLC, representing fallen Temple University Police Sgt. Chris Fitzgerald's survivors, has filed a civil action against relatives of Miles Pfeffer, the 18-year-old charged with the devastating February shooting death of Sgt....

Mr. Cerqua, I write this open letter with the sincere hope that you will grasp the seriousness of this matter. Two weeks have passed since realtor.ca began incorrectly advertising apartment 112 at 3445 Ridgewood, Montreal, H3V 1B7 (the ('112') in its...

10x Genomics, Inc. , a leader in single cell and spatial biology, today announced that it filed new patent litigation against NanoString Technologies, Inc. and Vizgen, Inc. in the European Unified Patent Court. ...

Five former employees of Coventry Homes, a prominent new-home builder in Edmonton, have filed lawsuits against the company and one of its key shareholders, alleging sexual assault, failure to provide a safe workplace, and retaliation against...

Kang Haggerty LLC announced today that they obtained a $9 Million settlement in a non-intervened fentanyl false claims act qui tam case against private equity firm Belhealth Investment Partners, its principals, Harold Blue, Inder Tallur, and Dennis...

A new Holland & Knight study reveals that housing remains the top target of California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) lawsuits that challenge state agency approvals of private projects. The study, "In the Name of the Environment Part III: CEQA,...

Bio-Techne Corporation today announced that it prevailed on a claim that Miltenyi Biotec B.V. & Co. KG commercialized antibodies it developed based on information obtained by reverse engineering Bio-Techne's proprietary R&D Systems branded TIGIT and...

The San Diego labor law attorneys, at Zakay Law Group, APLC and JCL Law Firm, APC, filed a class action complaint against Breakfast Republic Carmel Valley, LLC, Breakfast Republic Encinitas, LLC, Breakfast Republic East Village, LLC, Breakfast...

In 2023, an investigation by the United States' National Highway Traffic Safety Administration tentatively concluded that airbag inflators designed and manufactured by ARC Automotive, Inc. contain a defective component which has rendered millions of...

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) announced that Chi Van Ho (Ho) of Ottawa, Ontario, was sentenced on May 19, 2023, in the Ontario Court of Justice, Ottawa Courthouse, to a total fine of $27,759. Ho was found guilty on March 31, 2023, of tax evasion...

The first trial in federal-court litigation brought by military families alleging they were sickened by and forced to live in toxic mold- and pest-infested base housing at JBSA-Randolph Air Force Base and Laughlin Air Force Base is set to begin on...

The Family of Camille Strickland-Murphy and the Correctional Service of Canada issue the following joint statement: On July 28, 2015, 22-year-old Camille Strickland-Murphy took her own life while in a cell at Nova Institution for Women where she was...