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Building materials giant CSR hit with misuse of market power case
Saint Gobain-owned CSR faces litigation by an independent building insulation distributor alleging it abused its dominance by upping prices during the pandemic.
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Snowdon liquidators go after building suppliers for insolvent payments
Liquidators of Snowdon Developments have brought proceedings against building suppliers to claw back more than $2 million in payments they say were made while the Victorian developer was insolvent.
‘Pull off band-aid’ on messages in Dovetail harassment suit: judge
The judge hearing a harassment suit by an in-house counsel at Dovetail has urged the software firm to "pull off the band-aid" and share text message evidence between the lawyer and company CEO Benjamin Humphrey.
Barristers’ group can use funds to cover mental health care, court says
A NSW Supreme Court judge has found the Barristers Benevolent Association of NSW can use its funds to support mental health care for legal practitioners.
Light & Wonder says Aristocrat’s Dragon Link info not trade secrets
Gaming company Light & Wonder has hit back at Aristocrat’s intellectual property case, arguing that allegedly confidential information about the popular Dragon Link poker game was not trade secrets. 
Element Zero to fight Fortescue’s bid for 9M docs seized under search order
Green iron start-up Element Zero has said it will fight Fortescue’s bid to access nearly nine million documents collected under a controversial search order in the mining giant’s case alleging former employees misappropriated its process for carbon dioxide-free iron. 
CoreLogic can’t get more details in BCI’s data scraping case
US-based analytics company CoreLogic has lost its bid for further particulars in building information provider BCI’s case alleging it scraped content from its LeadManager platform to improve a competing product and procure customers. 
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Hastie had no written costs agreement with Hall & Wilcox despite $17.8M bill, court told
Contesting $17.8 million in fees billed by law firm Hall & Wilcox, the liquidators of collapsed engineering firm Hastie Group have told a court there was no written costs agreement between the parties. 
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CityLink’s claim in toll dispute with ConnectEast time-barred, court told
CityLink operator CML, which was found to have overcharged Eastlink operator ConnectEast, has argued that it also overpaid and is entitled to damages, but ConnectEast has told a judge the claim is time-barred and doesn't fall within a cross-claim exception. 
Cantarella loses bid to have honest concurrent user ‘conundrum’ resolved by High Court
The High Court has declined coffee maker Cantarella's special leave application arguing the Full Court should have found it was an honest concurrent user of the 'Oro' trade mark, which was first used by another coffee maker.