The fate of class actions against Volkswagen in the sprawling Australian case over the car maker’s diesel emissions cheating scandal will be the subject of a major court battle starting Wednesday.
Luxury home builder Glenville has won an appeal of a ruling that shielded certain documents from production by legal professional privilege in a lawsuit against global packaging giant Amcor over liability for asbestos remediation at a former Amcor paper mill site in a Melbourne suburb.
The High Court has rejected a bid by biopharmaceutical company Samsung Bioepis Australia to challenge a ruling granting Pfizer preliminary discovery for a potential patent infringement case over autoimmune drug Enbrel.
Pharmaceutical giant Wyeth’s has launched an “ambush” at the beginning of a trial after a nine-year long battle against several generic drug makers, alleging infringement of a second patent for its blockbuster Effexor-XR, a judge heard Monday.
A judge has denied a bid for summary judgment by Garmin Australia in a lawsuit brought by the GPS giant seeking $1.1 million allegedly owed under an agreement to supply its products for sale in Australia.
The Australian Building and Construction Commissioner has lost its challenge to a Federal Court decision dismissing allegations that the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union engaged in unlawful industrial action in Canberra in 2014.
A decade-long courtroom battle over a patent for Effexor-XR that delayed the release of cheap versions of the anti-depressant is at the centre of a trial starting Monday in Sydney pitting four generic drug makers against pharmaceutical giant Wyeth.
The ACCC rejected a $3 million settlement offer in a high-profile case against the Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union over secondary boycotts, instead taking its chances in a trial that ultimately resulted in a penalty of just $1 million, according to a judgment published Friday.
Unlockd’s case against Google is the first action in Australia to test a revamped law prohibiting misuse of market power, and one of the first private cases in the world to challenge Google’s dominance in court. For both sides, the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Telecommunications company Optus asked a judge Friday to award damages for customers it lost as a result of Telstra’s “Unlimited” ad campaign, which the Federal Court ruled last week was misleading and deceptive.