News by subject: LAW/LEGAL ISSUES

Leading Canadian infrastructure and project finance lawyer Mark Bain is stepping down after six years as chair of the board of directors of The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships (CCPPP). Bain, a Partner at Torys LLP, made the...

CAUT - The Auditor General of Ontario says it was unnecessary, inappropriate, and ultimately destructive for the Laurentian University senior administration to deliberately pursue insolvency protection in the courts rather than accept government...

AMD and Analog Devices, Inc. today announced that they have resolved all their ongoing patent litigations, based on mutually agreed upon terms. As part of this resolution, the two companies have committed to pursue technology collaborations to...

A Richmond Hill online gaming player has been charged with two counts of Cheat at Play, contrary to section 209 of the Criminal Code of Canada. All regulated gaming sites ? including OLG.CA as well as private operator sites conducted and managed...

Class members who have yet to file their claim for the Federal Indian Day School Class Action Settlement are urged to submit their Extension Request Form together with their Claim Form as soon as possible as the January 13, 2023 final deadline is...

In a letter submitted to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance (FINA), the Association of Canadian Pension Management (ACPM) commented on Bill C-228, noting serious, undesirable and unintended...

A reward of up to $250,000 was announced Tuesday by the Bolo Program as it updated its Top 25 list of Canada's most wanted fugitives. The reward was announced for information leading to the arrest of Rabih Alkhalil, who is wanted for being...

Marble is using their flagship legal product, Medchart, to provide claimant authorization to law firms representing patients in the Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals opioid lawsuit. Powered by Marble's APIs, Medchart enables mass tort and personal injury...

A national organization representing naturists has launched a significant initiative that calls on the Federal government to review its nudity law. The Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN) has released a position statement and has organized a...

Individuals who attended a Federal Indian Residential School during the day but did not sleep there overnight ("Day Scholars"), are encouraged to submit a claim for $10,000 in compensation by the...

Grain producers will now have more time to ask for a Final Quality Determination from the Canadian Grain Commission in the event of a grain grading dispute on their deliveries into Canadian Grain Commission-licensed primary elevators. Formerly known...

Acasti Pharma Inc. ("Acasti" or the "Company") , a late-stage, specialty pharma company advancing three clinical stage drug candidates addressing rare and orphan diseases, announced today that a U.S. court has dismissed the remaining stockholder...

Lupaka Gold Corp. ("Lupaka" or the "Company") provides an update regarding its ongoing Arbitration Claim proceedings (the "Claim") with the Republic of Peru ("Peru"). As previously reported, in October 2020, Lupaka filed a request for...

The Provincial Court of Alberta has outlined the concrete steps it is taking to provide a culturally relevant, restorative, and holistic system of justice for Indigenous individuals that access the Court. At a rare public press event on September...

Today, the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC) launches Restoring Indigenous Humanity, a new podcast series exploring challenges faced by the majority of Indigenous people when interacting with the Canadian justice system. The...

The Provincial Court of Alberta will release its new Indigenous Justice Strategy at a press conference on Wednesday, September 28. Where:   Edmonton Court Centre (outside near West Entrance, weather permitting) When:   10:30 a.m., Wednesday,...

The Representative Plaintiffs of the Band Reparations Class Action, shíshálh Nation and Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc, have announced today the adjournment of the Band Reparations trial to allow for the completion of settlement discussions with Canada....

Sunniva Inc. ("Sunniva", the "Company") announces that on September 7, 2022, the Company's subsidiary, CP Logistics LLC ("CPL") received a interim ruling from JAMS Arbitration regarding the arbitration CPL commenced against the current owner and...

Workers gathered on the steps of the Superior Court of Justice this morning, as the Court prepared to begin hearing the constitutional challenge to Bill 124 brought forward by unions across the province. The bill caps public sector compensation at...

Tilray Brands, Inc. ("Tilray" or the "Company") , a leading global cannabis and consumer packaged goods company, today announced that the Company has initiated a policy roundtable with German regulators on adult-use cannabis legalization in Germany....

The International Council on Alcohol, Drugs & Traffic Safety (ICADTS) has released new tools summarizing the latest research about cannabis-impaired driving to help inform policymakers across countries. This series of fact sheets were developed in...

On September 12, 2022 a trial regarding the collective losses suffered by Aboriginal communities as a result of Canada's Indian residential school system will commence before the Federal Court of Canada in Vancouver. 325 First Nations from across...

NCS Multistage Holdings, Inc. ("NCS" or the "Company") announced that a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Waco Division has found that an NCS patent, U.S. Patent No. 10,465,445, is valid and infringed by TCO AS's...

Multiple EB-5 industry stakeholders have entered into a settlement agreement with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") that protects EB-5 investors and re-authorizes previously approved regional centers, effectively...

Cannabix Technologies Inc. (the "Company or Cannabix") developer of marijuana breathalyzer devices for law enforcement and the workplace reports it continues to successfully test a supplemental version of its FAIMS technology for detection of...

Altai Resources Inc. (ATI, TSX VENTURE; US SEC Rule 12g3-2(b) File # 82-2950) (the "Company" or "Altai") reports that the Quebec Government has announced that Bill 21, An Act mainly to end petroleum exploration and production and the public financing...

TELUS Corporation ("TELUS") and LifeWorks Inc. ("LifeWorks") today announced that the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) has granted its final order (the "Court Approval") approving the plan of arrangement (the "Arrangement") in...

Jushi Holdings Inc. ("Jushi" or the "Company") , a vertically integrated, multi-state cannabis operator, announced that it entered into a confidential settlement agreement with Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. ("Curaleaf") and with Jushi's former Chief...

The Registrar of the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) has issued an Order of Suspension for the liquor licence of EFS Social Club located at 647 King St. W. Toronto. The suspension is in immediate effect and the club is not legally...

Verde AgriTech Plc (the "Company" or "Old Verde") announces that the UK Court hearing, in London, UK (the "Scheme Court Hearing"), to sanction the scheme of arrangement proposed as described in the circular filed on SEDAR by the Company on June 14,...

In a historic move, British Columbia's Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, Mike Farnworth, announced today that the province will terminate its immigration detention contract with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). "Today's...

Three Valley Copper Corp. ("Three Valley Copper" or the "Company") today announced that the Chilean court's response to the filing of a Judicial Restructuring Procedure ("JRP") by Minera Tres Valles SpA ("MTV"), the Company's 95.1% Chilean copper...

Today's ruling from the BC Court of Appeal in the Cambie Surgeries Corporation (CSC) case has upheld the BC Supreme Court's September 2020 decision that protected key principles of public health care in Canada. The court found that the provisions of...

In order to protect the public interest and ensure Ontario's casino gaming sector operates responsibly and with integrity, the Registrar of the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO), has served HR Ottawa LP with Orders of Monetary Penalty...

Marble (formerly Medchart) today announced that law firms are using Marble API to authenticate claimants and pull medical data from various medical databases in three mass tort cases: Camp Lejeune water, 3M earplugs and manufacturers of aqueous...

This fraud alert and public safety warning is issued in relation to Paulette Kimura-Shimabukuro ? a Las Vegas resident cited by victims and witnesses throughout the U.S. and globe for acts of fraud and attempted fraudulent schemes across a range of...

Sandfire Resources America Inc. ("Sandfire America" or the "Company") announces that the District Court has issued an order on remedies that will allow Phase I Construction of the Black Butte Copper Project to be completed under the existing permit....

Today the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announced it has laid multiple criminal charges against five individuals. Their investigation discovered that over $3 Million CAD from the illegal sale of cannabis was laundered, including through...

Almaden Minerals Ltd. ("Almaden" or "the Company"; TSX: AMM; NYSE American: AAU) reports that, further to its press releases of April 27 and February 17, 2022, Mexico's Ministry of the Economy ("Economia") has now been officially notified of the...

Pasinex Resources Limited (The "Company" or "Pasinex") today reports that at this stage, T.C. Maden ve Petrol Iserl Genel Mudurlugu ("MAPEG"), the mining ministry in Turkey, have not extended the principal mining operational license of Horzum AS...

In order to protect the public interest and ensure Ontario's igaming market operates responsibly and with integrity, the Registrar of the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO), has served Crown DK CAN Ltd. with an Order of Monetary Penalty...

The District Court for the Northern District of California, on Friday, June 24, issued a preliminary injunction in Behring Regional Center vs. Mayorkas et.al. The Court ordered in part that previously designated EB-5 regional centers "must presently...

On Friday, June 24, 2022, the legal team at Thomson Rogers led by Stephen Birman, Robert Ben and Lucy Jackson secured a Toronto jury decision awarding the largest known punitive damages on record to an individual plaintiff in Canada after a five-week...

Mexican Supreme Court (SCJN, for its acronym in Spanish) confirmed it's ruling against Almaden Minerals Ltd (AAU in a case brought by the Nahua Community and the Ejido of Tecoltemi against the company's mining concessions and the national Mining Law....

Stone Investment Group Limited ("SIG" or the "Corporation") announced today that the Corporation has obtained a final court order (the "Final Order") from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) approving the previously announced plan...

National law firm Morris Kandinov is investigating Goldman Sachs U.S. Equity ESG Fund and DWS ESG Core Equity Fund. If you are a current owner of shares of any of these funds, contact [email protected] or call 619-780-3993. Goldman Sachs U.S. Equity ESG...

Canada's unions welcome the cross-party collaboration of New Democrat, Bloc and Conservative MPs, who are moving forward key legislation to put workers at the front-of-the-line and protect their pensions when it comes to commercial bankruptcy or...

Intentional violations of the Criminal Code of Canada announced for next week may lead to a class-action lawsuit for damages, as well as any penalties imposed by the courts for disrupting highway users. A group calling itself Save Old Growth has...

National law firm Morris Kandinov is investigating the actions of the officers and board of directors of Interface, Inc., Covetrus, Inc., FIGS, Inc., and MicroStrategy Incorporated.   If you are a current owner of shares of any of these stocks,...

SNC-Lavalin's Candu Energy sets a new Covid-19 policy record among large corporate employers in Canada by demanding that hundreds of employees currently working from home return to the office full time ? with one business day's notice.  The move...