News by subject: LAW/LEGAL ISSUES

The Senate of Canada decision to delay further debate on crucial impaired driving legislation for two months is unacceptable and puts the safety of Canadians at risk. "We are extremely disappointed that the Senate is delaying its work on Bill C-46,"...

Canada Carbon (the "Company") (CCB:TSX-V) (BRUZF:OTC) (U7N1:FF) - Following Canada Carbon's filing of an appeal before Quebec's Administrative Tribunal to review the CPTAQ's decision to administratively close its file, Canada Carbon formally notified...

On February 22, the Ontario Court of Justice fined a Toronto-area man $15,625 (including a 25 per cent victim fine surcharge of $3,125) after his guilty plea to four counts of breaching the Professional Engineers Act by misrepresenting himself as a...

Align Technology, Inc. today announced that it included the following disclosure in its Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017. Align is currently evaluating the potential impact that this could have on our consolidated financial statements;...

Canada Carbon Inc. (the "Company") (FF:U7N1) announces that following Canada Carbon's demand for a review of the January 25th, 2018 administrative closure by Québec's Agricultural Board (the Commission de protection du territoire agricole du Québec...

Arbutus Biopharma Corporation , an industry-leading hepatitis B virus (HBV) therapeutic solutions company, today announced that litigation initiated by Acuitas Therapeutics on October 25, 2016 in the Supreme Court of British Columbia has been...

Avaya Holdings Corp. , a global market leader in contact center and unified communications solutions as well as call taking solutions for public safety communication centers, praised the United States Congress for passing "The Kari's Law Act of 2017"...

On February 14th TearLab issued a press release indicating it will appeal after its defeat in a patent infringement action against I-MED Pharma Inc. in Canada. In the press release, it was stated "The I-PEN® did indeed infringe the TearLab patent;...

Darwin Deason, a long-term and third-largest shareholder of Xerox Corp. ("Xerox"), has filed a lawsuit against Fujifilm Holdings Corp. ("Fuji"), Xerox, current Xerox board members and Ursula M. Burns, Xerox's former Chairman and CEO. The complaint...

CP Kelco, a leading global producer of specialty hydrocolloid solutions, announced today that a California state court issued a judgment in its favor in a legal case filed against one of its ex-senior scientists, Dr. Chienkuo "Ronnie" Yuan, Director...

International Cobalt Corp.  (the "Company" or "International Cobalt") is pleased to announce that it has received notification from counsel that Battery Mineral Resources Limited ("Battery Minerals") motion to dismiss the legal action filed against...

Golden Dawn Minerals Inc., (the "Company" or "Golden Dawn") provides disclosure of lawsuit between Armex Mining Corp. and Huakan International Mining Inc. On December 18, 2017, the Company announced that it had entered into an option agreement...

ViaDerma, Inc. , a specialty pharmaceutical company devoted to bringing new products to market, recently announced today that the Company's legal counsel, Austin Legal Group, has been successful in having the complaint filed by Steven J. Keough in a...

Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) President Chris Buckley commended yesterday's appeal decision for Metron Construction Project Manager Vadim Kazenelson, calling it a confirmation of a historic decision that sends a strong message to every employer...

Novelion Therapeutics Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing new standards of care for individuals living with rare metabolic diseases, today announced that a U.S. District Court judge has sentenced Novelion subsidiary Aegerion...

Marijuana legalization has been looming large on the horizon for Canadian employers ? yet the vast majority are still not prepared for how legalization may impact the workplace. A full 71 per cent of employers are still not prepared for the...

NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWS WIRE SERVICES OR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES. Further to its news release of January 17, 2018, Torex Gold Resources Inc. (the "Company" or "Torex") announces that it has filed a final short form base...

Network-1 Technologies, Inc. announced today that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Final Written Decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in favor of...

Today Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason released the following joint statement regarding Xerox Corporation :We are the first and third largest shareholders of Xerox, beneficially owning collectively over 40 million shares of the company's common stock,...

Over 50 protests are taking place today at Tim Hortons locations across the country as part of a National Day of Action Against the Cuts. The national protests are in response to Tim Hortons clawing back workers' benefits, paid breaks and other perks...

Network-1 Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has agreed to revise, and closed, its previously announced settlement with Juniper Networks, Inc. ("Juniper") of its patent litigation for infringement of Network-1's Remote Power Patent pending...

Demands that Xerox Immediately Disclose its Existing Joint Venture Agreement with FujiDemands that the Board Hire New and Independent Advisors Following Discussions with DeasonDiscloses May 2017 Letter to Xerox BoardDarwin Deason, the third largest...

À la veille de la Journée de Martin Luther King Jr., Black Lives Matter et l'avocate Saron Gebresellassi se sont rendus aux postes frontaliers de Roxham Road et de Lacolle afin d'offrir de l'aide juridique aux migrants haïtiens qui traversent la...

On the eve of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Black Lives Matter and Legal Counsel, Saron Gebresellassi, arrived at the Roxham Road and Lacolle Border crossings to offer legal support to Haitian migrants crossing the border to enter Canada. At the...

Carry the Kettle First Nation has filed a claim against Saskatchewan and Canada for infringing their Treaty 4 rights. Carry the Kettle asserts that Canada and Saskatchewan must stop violating the promises it made to Carry the Kettle in Treaty 4 and...

Network-1 Technologies, Inc. announced today that it sold its allowed general unsecured claim against Avaya, Inc. ("Avaya") for $6,320,000. As previously announced in September 2017, Network-1 agreed to settle its patent litigation against Avaya,...

In response to the news that Albert Schultz has resigned from Soulpepper Theatre Company, our clients Ted Dykstra, Stuart Hughes, Michelle Monteith, and Rick Roberts stated: "Our primary concern is to stay focused on standing with the women who came...

The day after four actresses filed claims against Albert Schultz and Soulpepper Theatre Company, Ted Dykstra, Stuart Hughes, Michelle Monteith, and Rick Roberts have announced their resignation from Soulpepper. "These artists support and stand with...

Air passenger rights advocate Dr. Gábor Lukács has filed a lawsuit against the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) and Air Transat related to the handling of incidents in July 2017 when hundreds of passengers were stranded on the tarmac for five...

Air passenger rights advocate Dr. Gábor Lukács has filed a lawsuit against the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) and Air Transat related to the handling of incidents in July 2017 when hundreds of passengers were stranded on the tarmac for five...

Today, four lawsuits have been commenced against Albert Schultz as well as the Soulpepper Theatre Company. The actresses claim that while they were under contract with Soulpepper, they were sexually assaulted and harassed by its Artistic Director,...

Aeterna Zentaris Inc. (the "Company" or "Aeterna Zentaris") , a specialty biopharmaceutical company engaged in developing and commercializing pharmaceutical therapies, announced today that it is in receipt of a statement of defence and counterclaim...

Agrium Inc. announced today that Crop Production Services ("CPS"), the retail business unit of Agrium, recently settled with the U.S. Department of Justice over claims that CPS discriminated against U.S. workers to fill a small number of temporary...

Old PSG Wind-down Ltd. (formerly, Performance Sports Group Ltd.) (the "Company") today announced that the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the "Bankruptcy Court") has approved the first amended joint Chapter 11 plan of...

Copper One Inc. ("Copper One" or the "Company") announces that it has completed the assignment of all the mining claims comprising the Rivière Doré Project to SOQUEM and as consideration the Québec Government has paid $8 million in cash to Copper...

Align Technology, Inc. announced today that due to 3Shape's infringing conduct and the resulting litigation against Shape A/S of Copenhagen, Denmark and 3Shape Inc. of Warren N.J. (collectively "3Shape."), the company terminated its Invisalign...

TriNet , a leading provider of HR services, today announced that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has dismissed the putative securities class action against TriNet and all other defendants. The Court granted the...

Filo Mining Corp (OMX:FIL) ("Filo Mining", "Filo", or the "Company") announces that a National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101") Technical Report (the "Technical Report"), which summarizes the results of a Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA") for...

Copper One Inc. ("Copper One" or the "Company") reports that on November 15, 2017, Copper One and the Québec Government entered into a binding settlement agreement which facilitates an end to Copper One's participation in the Rivière Doré Project....

Alberta's largest worker advocacy organization has joined the chorus of people calling on UCP leader Jason Kenney to fire his house leader, Jason Nixon, after it was revealed that Nixon fired a female employee for lodging a sexual harassment...

Essential Energy Services Ltd. ("Essential" or the "Company") provides details of the positive patent litigation decision. On November 3, 2017, the Federal Court of Canada (the "Court") rendered a decision in Essential's favor with regard to a...

Caring Citizens of Vancouver Society (the "Society") has, through its counsel McEwan Partners, filed a petition  to the Supreme Court of British Columbia for judicial review against the City of Vancouver regarding its decision to construct a...

Metanor Resources Inc. (the "Corporation") announces that it has been found not guilty of the charges of criminal negligence causing death, in relation to the workplace fatalities which occurred in October of 2009.  Pascal Hamelin, President...

The Veterans Transition Network: A group of six injured veterans suffered a devastating setback yesterday in their legal battle with the government when the Equitas case was struck down in its entirety at the B.C. Court of Appeal. The Equitas case...

Indigenous women leaders, Sharon McIvor and Dr. Pamela Palmater, will appear before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) today at 8:30 am Eastern Time to provide testimony on Canada's failure to eliminate sex discrimination from the...

Old PSG Wind-down Ltd. (formerly, Performance Sports Group Ltd.) (the "Company") today announced that it has filed a plan supplement (the "Plan Supplement") to the first amended joint Chapter 11 plan of liquidation (together with the Plan Supplement,...

BlackBerry Limited today announced that the International Chamber of Commerce's International Court of Arbitration has ruled against the company in a contract dispute with Nokia Corporation. On April 28, 2016, Nokia filed a Request for...

Total Energy Services Inc. ("Total") announces that it has received a Statement of Claim filed in the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench by Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Alberta, by its agent, Alberta Investment Management Corporation ("AIMCo")...

The class action continues. Today, Justice Simon Hébert has rendered his decision regarding the motion for a stay of proceeding filed by Université Laval in September. The judge rejected the University's request for a suspension of the class action...

Power Solutions International, Inc. ("the Company" or ?PSI?) , a leader in the design, engineering and manufacture of emissions-certified, alternative-fuel power systems, announced that the Company and its subsidiary, Professional Power Products,...