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Shine stuck running Blue Sky, EY class action with rival firm
Securities 2022-12-19 5:32 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A law firm has lost its bid to challenge a court order that it join forces with a competing firm in an investor class action against Blue Sky Alternative Investments and auditor EY.

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Sunwater insurer doesn’t owe coverage for $440M Queensland floods class action
Insurance 2022-12-16 9:25 pm By Sam Matthews

Queensland government-owned water services provider Sunwater has lost a bid to overturn a judgment letting insurer Liberty Mutual Insurance off the hook for its share of a $440 million settlement in the Queensland floods class action.

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Law firm bows out of contest to run class actions against Apple, Google
Competition & Consumer Protection 2022-12-15 5:31 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A law firm has dropped plans to bring a second set of class actions alleging Apple and Google engaged in anti-competitive conduct in operating their app stores, but will act as an “agent” for the first-to-file firm.

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Contradictor blasts Shine’s ‘wholly unreasonable’ $100M legal bill in J&J class actions
Class Actions 2022-12-05 11:15 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A contradictor in two pelvic mesh class actions against Johnson & Johnson has opposed Shine Lawyers recovering $100 million in costs from a $300 million settlement, which a judge has preliminarily found is not fair and reasonable to group members.

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Judge slashes Opal Tower funder’s cut of class action settlement
Class Actions 2022-11-28 11:35 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has approved a confidential settlement in a class action on behalf of 383 apartment owners in Sydney’s Opal Tower but slashed the amount sought by the funder.

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Freezing order stands in Sportsbet’s domain name spat with owner of sportsbet.com
Intellectual Property 2022-11-21 5:39 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Bookmaker Sportsbet has defeated a bid to overturn a freezing order against the owner of the sportsbet.com domain name in a trade mark infringement dispute stemming from a promotion agreement.

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Apple flags fight over consolidation of app store competition class actions
Competition & Consumer Protection 2022-11-18 5:39 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Apple has foreshadowed a challenge in the event two law firms seek to work together on a consolidated class action that alleges both Apple and Google engaged in anti-competitive conduct in operating their app stores.

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Funder’s $13.2M cut is 26% of Opal Tower class action settlement
Class Actions 2022-11-11 11:00 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The litigation funder bankrolling a class action on behalf of 383 apartment owners in Sydney’s troubled Opal Tower is seeking a 26 per cent commission totalling $13.2 million of the confidential settlement sum, a court has heard. 

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Nuix drags PwC into shareholder class action over $1.8B IPO
Corporate 2022-11-09 11:41 pm By Christine Caulfield

Nuix has pointed the finger at its accountant PricewaterhouseCoopers in the software company’s defence to a class action over a prospectus for its $1.8 billion IPO two years ago.

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Virgin’s insurers may be pulled into bond holders class action
Class Actions 2022-11-08 4:02 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Virgin Australia’s insurers may be dragged into a class action accusing the airline of failing to disclose its true financial position in a 2019 prospectus for a $324 million capital raising.

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