Decision determines that silica trust and channeling injunction are appropriate under Third Circuit standards.

Although the business community had hoped the Court would overrule Basic v. Levinson, and the presumption of reliance it created, the Court did not go so far.

This conference is always a stimulating and fascinating opportunity to share thoughts with colleagues in the Canadian communications sector.

It has been more than six years since the onset of the credit crisis and we have documented for the first time in the past few months a significant increase in the number and size of settlements.

The Office of Fossil Energy of the Department of Energy (DOE/FE) ended a nearly two-year moratorium on liquefied natural gas (LNG) export approvals on Friday when it conditionally approved the export of LNG to countries that do not have a free trade agreement with the United States (non-FTA countries).

More than year ago this blog addressed ago the possible implications of a FERC ruling in the PJM Order No. 2222 compliance docket on the issue of whether net metered retail (NEM) customers compensated through credits at the full retail rate.

On November 27, President Obama signed S.1956, the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme Prohibition Act of 2011, into law.

The Australian financial sector has undergone a facelift over the last 20 years and ‘shareholder vigilance’ is a phrase now appropriate to characterise our investment environment.

Table 6 provides summary statistics on IPR damage awards in our sample, while Table 7 provides more detail on the five largest awards.

The following article is taken from The European Lawyer Reference Book 'Employment & Labour Law', 4th Ed. 2012.

Following amendments made in the last decade to various provincial Securities Acts to include statutory causes of action in the secondary market against public issuers for misrepresentation and/or failure to make timely disclosure to investors there has been ongoing debate about the appropriate threshold test for obtaining the requisite leave to commence a secondary market class action.

We believe that the following securities class action developments are largely issuer/defendant friendly, but their impact on the number and types of future securities class action filings remains to be seen.

No preliminary decisions on admissibility of requests for amendment of claims (Rule 263 RoP, Rule 30 RoP)

As the financial crisis deepens, public attention is increasingly focused on the effect on millions of Americans who have lost (or are projected to lose) their homes, with many calling for government intervention. The statistics on foreclosures and the effect of the decline in housing prices on the equity of those homeowners are staggering.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on equity markets has been a topic of endless speculation and debate.

Intellectual property rights (IPR) are legal entitlements granted by governments within their respective sovereignties that provide patent, trademark, and copyright owners the exclusive right to exploit their intellectual property (IP) for a certain period. The basic rationale for IPR protection is to provide an incentive for innovation by granting IP owners an opportunity to recover their costs of research and development.

The guide to Employment Law in Ireland as featured in the Employment Law Review, Fourth Edition, 2013.

The number of securities class actions filed in Australia and in the United States of America remains steady, but it is still rare for these class actions to proceed to hearings ...

This newsletter includes links to recent media releases, reports and cases relating to construction and infrastructure.

In 2009 the Colombian telecommunications regulator—Comisión de Regulación de Comunicaciones ("CRC")—declared Colombian mobile operator Comcel a dominant operator.