Sentences with phrase «competition class action case»
It was Christmas Eve and Ebenantitrust, a senior Big Law partner, was working late on defence pleading in a competition class action case.
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Cove has represented plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state antitrust cases, including price fixing, boycott and monopolization cases, direct and indirect purchaser class actions, and unfair competition actions in federal and state courts across the country.
Many of its files will be familiar to regular readers of the national media, and include the $ 9 - billion Sino - Forest Corp. shareholder class action claim; an application against Rogers Communications Inc. and Chatr Wireless Inc. involving a constitutional challenge to the Competition Act; and a case concerning oil pollution in the Amazon in which the firm acted for Ecuadoran plaintiffs.
While the Competition Bureau has announced a deal aimed at lowering the price of electronic books, a class action over the practices of Apple Inc. and several major publishers will go ahead, according to a lawyer involved in the case.
Therium invests in a broad range of complex commercial disputes, from securities and shareholder actions, international arbitration, competition and anti-trust cases, through to intellectual property, insolvency and group and class actions.
He has litigated a wide variety of disputes, including consumer class actions (including alleged violations of California's Unfair Competition Law, False Advertising Law and Consumer Legal Remedies Act), trade secret misappropriation and employee mobility disputes, breach of contract, fraud, and product liability cases, and earn out, working capital, indemnification and other post-closing M&A disputes.
Labor and Employment: Our labor and employment attorneys are leaders in the hospitality and restaurant industries, representing employers in collective and class actions, discrimination and retaliation complaints, whistle - blower cases, trade secret theft and unfair competition litigation, and wage and hour cases.
Banking and financial markets cases / Securities and shareholder disputes / International arbitration / Professional negligence / Competition and anti-trust / Trust litigation / Intellectual property / Insolvency / Insurance / Tax / Group and class actions / General commercial disputes / Fraud / Shipping and international trade / Enforcement of judgments and awards
He has built a distinctly diverse practise, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in cutting edge competition cases and class actions, as well as all manner of business disputes, including corporate, contract, securities, fraud and malfeasance, real estate, and international litigation.
His practice focuses on class actions and cases under the Unfair Competition Law (Business and Professions Code Section 17200), and he speaks and writes frequently on those issues.
One of the primary issues relating to the certification of competition law class actions to date has been difficulties arising from the calculation of damages and, in particular, the challenges in some cases of calculating damages in the context of so - called «indirect purchasers» (i.e., where it is alleged that that direct purchasers passed on, for example, a price - fixing overcharge from manufacturers to a second downstream level of consumers).
Recent notable reported cases include R (Miller and Dos Santos) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union [2017] UKSC 5 (acting for one of the interested parties in the Article 50 litigation at both Divisional Court and Supreme Court levels) and Dorothy Gibson v Pride Mobility Products Ltd [2017] CAT 9 (acting for the respondent in the first opt - out class action in UK competition proceedings).
Bergman has extensive trial experience in state and federal courts, litigating unfair competition, false advertising, trademark, trade dress and copyright infringement cases along with class actions and other complex business disputes.
These various class action challenges will likely at some point be consolidated and, like all past competition class actions in Canada, lead to settlements if certified (there has not been, to date, any competition law class action case decided on the merits yet in Canada).
Civil Procedure in Quebec: Admissibility of Wiretaps Can federal wiretaps in a federal Competition Act investigation of gas price fixing be admitted in a provincial class actions case.