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Freight operators have a cow over port direction holding up vessel with $5.2M in cattle
Two marine freight companies have lost a fight with a local council which refused to allow it to unload 3,000 head of cattle at Apollo Bay in Victoria, with a judge finding they were “the architects of their own misfortune” for striking a deal with a beef company before securing permission to berth at the port. 
Samsung Bioepis sues Janssen Biotech to invalidate Stelara patents
South Korean biosimilars company Samsung Bioepis has sued Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Biotech to invalidate two patents for Crohn's disease drug Stelara, after reaching a licencing agreement over the medicine in the US.
Nervous shock awards ‘snowballing’, says Sparke Helmore’s new health partner
Health law practitioners are grappling with “snowballing awards” in claims over psychiatric injuries, according to Sparke Helmore’s new health law partner. 
Judge makes no bones about trashing ‘Melbourne bone and joint clinic’ trade mark
A Melbourne orthopaedic clinic has lost its bid to register the name ‘Melbourne Bone and Joint Clinic’ as a trade mark, with a judge finding the phrase was just an ordinary combination of words. 
Online broker IC Markets faces second class action over CFDs
Online broker International Capital Markets has been hit with a second class action for selling “excessively risky” derivative products known as contracts for difference to retail investors. 
AMA Group drops poaching case against three former execs
Car repair giant AMA Group has resolved its case against three former executives that sought to block them from poaching staff and customers for competing business Drive Group. 
Telstra pushes off hearing in $45M fight with former contractor
Telstra has won its bid to vacate a hearing in a case by former contractor Kingfisher Mobile seeking to bar the telco from migrating customers to a new mobile services provider, after a judge found Kingfisher’s delay in filing the case meant meeting the date would be unfair. 
Judge approves 27.5% GCO in ‘complex’ Medibank class action
A judge has signed off on a 27.5 per cent group costs order in a consolidated shareholder class action against Medibank over a cyberattack that affected 10 million customers, noting the “significant risk” taken on by the two plaintiff law firms running the action. 
Law firms team up to run class action against IG Markets over CFDs
Two firms have agreed to consolidate their class actions against online trading platform IG Markets over risky CFDs, but the company failed in a bid to have the two funders behind the cases liable for 100% of any security for costs order lest one funder defaults.
Charges laid against director of crypto investment firm A One Multi
A director of defunct investment scheme A One Multi, which allegedly raised $25 million in funds, has been charged with nine counts of running a financial services company without a licence.