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Globe International denies that it violated the law when it sent multiple letters to Kmart allegedly threatening legal action for infringing its copyright for cargo pants and shorts.
One of Australia's largest debt collectors, ACM Group, harassed and coerced vulnerable customers -- including a stroke victim -- by bombarding them with phone calls and making empty threats of litigation, the Federal Court found Monday.
A settlement has been reached in two class actions brought on behalf of holders of debentures who allege they suffered losses due to Australian Executor Trustees' mismanagement of debenture issuer Provident Capital.
The naming of Squire Patton Boggs as a concurrent wrongdoer in GetSwift’s defence puts the law firm in an “impossible position of conflict of interest” if it wins a challenge to an order staying its class action against the company, the Full Federal Court has been told ahead of a highly anticipated appeal hearing that promises to pull no punches.
A judge has denied ASIC's bid to appoint an interim receiver to preserve the assets of three financial services companies that advised clients to invest in complex derivatives, which ASIC is seeking to have wound up for alleged violations of the Corporations Act.
Two generic drug makers have lost their bid for confidential documents related to Neurim Pharmaceuticals' patents covering sleep drug Circadin, with a court ruling legal professional privilege was waived in a phone conversation between a DLA Piper lawyer and the company's founder.
Two rival poppy processors are facing off in another courtroom battle over patents for high codeine-yielding poppy plants.
Cash Converters has been ordered to turn over information on people it provided payday loans to in Queensland in a class action alleging it charged a brokerage fee to borrowers for services they never received.
Fundraising company Appco told a judge Friday that it faced an 'injustice' if a wage case were allowed to proceed as a class action on behalf of over 1,000 workers, but the judge was not impressed, saying the argument made 'no sense' to him.
Eight former directors of failed mining company Kagara have settled a shareholder class action alleging they misled investors and falsified the company's accounting records, the Federal Court heard Friday.