News by subject: LAW/LEGAL ISSUES

Avaya, the global market leader in contact center and call taking solutions for public safety communication centers, today announced that it will be honoring the Texas Commission on State Emergency Communications this Fall for demonstrating its...

NextSource Materials Inc. ("NextSource" or "the Company") announces that it has filed its Updated National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report - Feasibility Study ("updated Feasibility Study") for its Molo Graphite Project located near the village of...

iAnthus Capital Holdings, Inc. ("iAnthus" or "the Company"), , which owns, operates, and partners with licensed cannabis operations throughout the United States, provides the following update on the completion of the 2017 Vermont legislative...

R.I.D.E CHECKS -- Don't add driving to your summer high! The warm weather often brings lots of cottage trips, festivals and concerts -- and sometimes the munchies too! Well, munch away but just don't get behind the wheel.That's the message from a new...

Blackbird Energy Inc. ("Blackbird" or the "Company") would like to clarify certain statements that appear in an article that was published on July 13, 2017, that alleged, among other things, that in connection with the public offering of common...

NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION OVER U.S. NEWS WIRE SERVICES OR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES Firm Capital Mortgage Investment Corporation (the "Corporation") today announced that it has filed a preliminary base shelf prospectus with the...

On Friday, June 30, the federal Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) issued an advisory that essentially banned credit unions from using the term "banking" to describe the services they offer Canadians. Their advisory takes a...

On July 6, 2017, the Court of Appeal for Ontario dismissed Tuckamore Holdings LP's ("Tuckamore") appeal of the February 1, 2017 decision by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) granting Brompton Corp.'s ("Brompton" or the...

ClearStream Energy Services Inc. ("ClearStream" or the "Company") announced today that the Ontario Court of Appeal issued its decision in the matter of Brompton Corp. v. Tuckamore Holdings LP with the Court dismissing the appeal brought by the...

ViXS Systems Inc. , a pioneer and leader in advanced media processing solutions, today announced that it has filed its Management Information Circular (the "Circular") and related proxy materials on SEDAR, in advance of ViXS' Annual and Special...

Electrovaya Inc. (the "Company"), a lithium ion battery supplier, today announced that the Company and Sankar Das Gupta, Chairman and CEO, have entered a Settlement Agreement (the "Agreement") with Staff of the Ontario Securities Commission ("OSC")....

Ivanhoe Mines announced today that, further to its news release dated May 17, 2017, the company has filed a National Instrument 43-101 (NI 43-101) technical report on the updated Mineral Resource estimate for the high-grade Kakula Copper Discovery...

Clairvest Group Inc. ("Clairvest") is providing an update on the previously announced regulatory issues with respect to its investment in Head InfoTech India Pvt. Ltd. ("Head InfoTech"). On June 17, 2017, the Telangana (India) state government...

Supreme Pharmaceuticals Inc. ("Supreme" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, 7ACRES, has been granted its permission to sell under the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations....

A British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) panel has found that Volkmar Guido Hable engaged in market manipulation and submitted false information to the Commission. Hable was a Whistler, B.C. resident and the executive vice president...

Strateco Resources Inc. ("Strateco") announced today that it will appeal the decision rendered on June 21, 2017, by the Honourable Denis Jacques, J.C.S., in connection with Strateco's lawsuit against the Attorney General of Quebec on behalf of the...

The Honourable Denis Jacques, J.C.S., rendered his decision today in connection with the lawsuit of Strateco Resources Inc. ("Strateco") against the Attorney General of Quebec on behalf of the Government of Quebec and the Minister of the Environment....

Won Sang Shen Cho (a.k.a. Craig Cho, Kevin Kim, Jae Hoon Kim), 46, of Vancouver, B.C., was arrested on June 13, 2017, following an investigation by the British Columbia Securities Commission's (BCSC) Criminal Investigations Branch. The warrant for...

Rui Armando Figueiredo (a.k.a. Roy Figueiredo), 56, currently of Coquitlam, B.C., was arrested on June 13, 2017, following an investigation by the British Columbia Securities Commission's (BCSC) Criminal Investigations Branch, with assistance from...

Bodybuilding.com today announced that it has reached an agreement to settle the lawsuit relating to Jim Stoppani and his company, PhD Fitness. Bodybuilding.com is pleased to share that Dr. Stoppani is now engaged with Bodybuilding.com to continue to...

iFabric Corp. , hereinafter referred to as "iFabric" or the "Company", announces that it has changed its auditors from Shimmerman Penn LLP (the "Former Auditors") to BDO Canada LLP (the "Successor Auditors"). At the request of the Company,...

The Executive Director of the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has issued a notice of hearing alleging that Donald Bruce Edward Wilson (Wilson), David Scott Wright (Wright), Patrick K. Prinster (Prinster), and two companies they...

Prairie Mines & Royalty ULC will be required to pay a total penalty of $925,000 as a result of a spill from a wastewater containment pond at the Obed Mountain Coal mine approximately 30 km east of Hinton. The spill that occurred in October 2013...

Hach Rose Schirripa & Cheverie received an order conditionally certifying class of non-exempt maintenance or service employees working at AvalonBay Communities, Inc. (?AvalonBay?) facilities located in New York State between October 2009 and the...

The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) is encouraging investors who lost money to Bossteam E-Commerce to submit their Proof of Claim online before August 4, 2017. On April 12, 2017, the BCSC announced that a Receiver had been...

The Provincial Building and Construction Trades Council of Ontario (PBCTCO) indicated its support for recently introduced legislation by Attorney General Yasir Naqvi that updates and modernizes the Construction Lien Act. "We are pleased to see the...

Hudbay Minerals Inc. ("Hudbay" or the "company") announced today that the U.S. Forest Service ("USFS") has issued the Final Record of Decision ("FROD") for Hudbay's Rosemont Project. Receiving the FROD concludes a thorough process involving 17...

Correctional Service Canada The lockdown put in place at Drumheller Institution on June 3, 2017 has ended and an exceptional search has been completed. The institution has resumed its normal operations. Correctional Service Canada...

Gran Colombia Gold Corp. announced today that it has filed a technical report on its Segovia Project in Colombia (the "Technical Report") pursuant to National Instrument 43?101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43?101"). The...

Correctional Service Canada On June 3, 2017, at about 1:55 p.m. a lockdown was put in place in the minimum security unit and the medium security unit at Drumheller Institution, to enable staff members to conduct an exceptional search....

Ontario SPCA Inspectors with the Lincoln County Humane Society have charged a St. Catharines veterinarian with 16 counts of animal cruelty under the Criminal Code of Canada relating to alleged animal abuse that allegedly occurred in 2013. A criminal...

McKenzie Lake Lawyers, LLP has filed a class action lawsuit with respect to Hernia Mesh.Doctors often use mesh to treat patients suffering from a hernia. Use of certain models of hernia mesh have been linked to an increased risk of serious side...

Intercontinental Potash Corp., a subsidiary of IC Potash Corp. (?IC Potash? or the ?Company?) filed a civil lawsuit in Denver County District Court, Colorado, against Intercontinental Potash Corp. (USA), a Colorado corporation, Pangaea Two...

NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWS WIRES SERVICES, OR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES. Primeline Energy Holdings Inc. ("Primeline" or the "Company") today announced that it has now completed all the procedures under the recently agreed...

BlackBerry Limited announced today that it has reached an agreement with Qualcomm Incorporated resolving all amounts payable in connection with the interim arbitration decision announced on April 12, 2017. Following a joint stipulation by the...

Ucore Rare Metals Inc. ("Ucore" or the "Company") is pleased to comment on recent initiatives by the US government to assist in the development of strategic metals mining and separation in the United States. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017...

Discovery Air Inc. ("Discovery Air" or the "Corporation") is pleased to announce that the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) has issued a final order approving the previously announced statutory plan of arrangement under section 192...

Editors Note: There is a photo associated with this press release. A formal request for an injunction with a view to cancelling the "urban rodeo" planned as part of the celebrations for Montreal's 375th anniversary has been lodged with the...

A British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) panel has ordered monetary sanctions and permanent bans against Brendan James Schouw and his company Hornby Residences Ltd. for fraud. In January 2017, a BCSC panel found that Schouw, a...

One day ahead of an special meeting of the Toronto Zoo's Board of Management, community and labour allies will join striking members of Local 1600 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 1600) on the picket line for a barbecue and solidarity...

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) is disappointed with the Government of Canada's introduction of Bill C-48, the proposed Oil Tanker Moratorium - designed to establish a moratorium on tanker traffic carrying crude oil and other...

The Executive Director of the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has issued a notice of hearing alleging that three B.C. men and three companies committed fraud against two investors. Alan Braun and Jerry Braun of Surrey, B.C. are...

Network-1 Technologies, Inc. announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Mirror Worlds Technologies, LLC ("MWT"), has initiated patent litigation against Facebook, Inc. ("Facebook") in the United States District Court for the Southern District...

At its May 5 meeting, the Board of Trustees of Cedarville University approved a campus concealed carry policy that allows full-time employees who choose to complete an application process to exercise their rights to carry under Ohio law and the...

BBX Capital Corporation announced today that a federal jury has rejected all remaining civil fraud claims brought by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission against its wholly owned subsidiary formerly known as BankAtlantic Bancorp and...

The Executive Director of the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has issued a notice of hearing alleging that Matthew John Hamilton and Braeden William Sinclair Lichti (a.k.a. Braeden Sinclair), both B.C. residents, deceived foreign...