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Monsanto defeats class action alleging weed killer Roundup causes cancer
Class Actions 2024-07-25 4:26 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has dismissed a class action alleging Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer is carcinogenic but did not go so far as to say it definitively does not cause cancer, while also dressing down the lawyers for both sides for causing delays in the case.

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Uber class action judge to appoint contradictor team to advise on objections to $272M settlement
Class Actions 2024-07-24 11:30 pm By Christine Caulfield

The judge considering a $272 million settlement in class actions against Uber will appoint a pair of contradictors to advise her on the hundreds of objections lobbed against the agreement.

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BHP class action to take fresh look at pleadings after failure of CBA cases
Class Actions 2024-07-18 1:28 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A shareholder class action against BHP has sought more time to finalise its pleadings ahead of trial, after a judge threw out two class actions against the Commonwealth Bank that also alleged continuous disclosure breaches.

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Judge rejects law firm’s updated bid in Hyundai, Kia class actions
Class Actions 2024-07-17 11:50 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has rejected a law firm’s attempt to update its bid to run class actions against Hyundai and Kia, saying the changes were intended to net the firm a competitive advantage in an upcoming fight for carriage of the class actions and different in substance from its previous position.

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DePuy class action member loses challenge to compensation, 12 years after settlement
Class Actions 2024-07-05 10:41 pm By Sam Matthews

A group member in a class action against Johnson & Johnson unit DePuy International has lost his bid to challenge his compensation determination 12 years after the case settled, with a judge finding that the independent counsel conducting the determination was not bound by the rules of procedural fairness.   

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‘Contrary to commercial reality’: Google takes aim at Epic Games’ competition case
Trials 2024-07-02 11:47 pm By Sam Matthews

Google has slammed Fortnite game maker Epic Games’ landmark competition case against it as “contrary to commercial reality”, saying its competition with rival tech giant Apple means it is no monopolist.

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Google attacked for ‘untruthful evidence’, failure to call top execs in Epic Games trial
Trials 2024-06-25 11:55 pm By Sam Matthews

Epic Games has taken aim at Google for the “untruthful evidence” of its witnesses in the game maker’s competition case against the tech giant, as well as its failure to call senior executives to the stand to defend itself. 

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CBA shareholders appeal trial loss in money laundering class actions
Class Actions 2024-06-25 11:16 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Shareholders of Commonwealth Bank have lodged expected appeals challenging a decision tossing their class actions over alleged lax money laundering compliance, giving the Full Federal Court a chance to clarify when companies must disclose regulatory investigations.

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Radio host Antoinette Lattouf headed to court against ABC after failed mediation
Employment 2024-06-25 10:33 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Former radio host Antoinette Lattouf will soon file Federal Court proceedings against the ABC after an attempt to mediate a dispute over her alleged unlawful termination was unsuccessful.

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Mired in interlocutory skirmishes, protracted BHP class action just got more entangled
Class Actions 2024-06-20 11:48 pm By Christine Caulfield

BHP wants to appeal a decision giving a class action the OK to fix what a judge accepted was an “inadvertent mistake” that resulted in a ruling — itself the subject of an appeal — which limited the group member definition.

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