After a marathon hearing in court on Monday, law firm Squire Patton Boggs lost its battle to avoid client communication restraints that other parties in the GetSwift class action saga voluntarily agreed to.
The trustee for collapsed investment group LKM Capital has reached a settlement in a class action brought on behalf of hundreds of investors who sunk $63 million into the failed firm.
Apple will pay $9 million to resolve a case by the ACCC alleging the US tech giant’s repair policies were in breach of the Australian Consumer Law, according to a court order Monday.
Squire Patton Boggs, one of the losing law firms in the GetSwift class action beauty contest, has lost again, this time in its fight to have winning firm Phi Finney McDonald pay its legal costs.
S&P Global Ratings and ANZ Banking Group have agreed to settle seven class actions over toxic financial products given healthy credit ratings ahead of the global financial crisis.
Quinn Emanuel has been forced to bow out as class action counsel in a case against Bank of Queensland after litigation funder Vannin Capital called for the law firm’s $4 million fee to be challenged.
The judge presiding over jostling shareholder class actions against logistics software company GetSwift suggested on Tuesday a “bill of peace” to join the actions, but lawyers leading the competing cases warned of the “economic hazard” of a merger.