On Monday, Amazon’s appeal against an antitrust suspension of its $200 million investment deal with Future Group was rejected by an Indian appeals tribunal, which claims the e-commerce giant hid information when it sought approval back in 2019. Suspension of the deal was issued in December by India’s antitrust agency, which alleged Amazon suppressed the […]
On Thursday, Sterling Jewelers-owner Signet Jewelers Ltd announced a $175 million settlement of a long-running gender bias lawsuit in which 68,000 female Sterling Jewelers employees claimed the retailer had paid women less and promoted them less often than their male counterparts. Sterling was originally sued in 2008, accused of violating Title VII of the Civil […]
The world’s richest man is represented by US law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, who wrote to Twitter on June 6 accusing it of refusing to provide sufficient information on its number of false accounts. In a letter to Twitter’s chief legal officer, Vijaya Gadde, Musk’s Skadden legal team said: “Mr Musk does […]
Elliott Investment Management is suing the London Metal Exchange (LME) for $456 million over its March decision to cancel nickel trades following a massive short squeeze. The claim was filed by two Elliott vehicles against LME and its clearing house in the English High Court on June 1. The LME management has since said that […]
On Wednesday, US tech giant Meta Platforms Inc compared searches by EU antitrust regulators to a fishing trawler amid investigations into the Facebook owner’s data and online marketplace. Meta says it has already given the European Commission access to over one million documents since 2019 when it first made a request regarding Meta’s Facebook Marketplace, […]
Drawing from a rich career in intellectual property law, Marks & Clerk partner Catherine Lovrics discusses several legal disputes that shaped IP law in Canada.
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