Taronga Conservation Society Australia and Sydney Zoo have agreed to settle their legal battle over the use of the name “Sydney Zoo”.
The Federal Government has promised $44.6 million over the next four years to establish a National Consumer Data Right that will enable consumers and small businesses to better protect their online data.
Toyota was on notice about problems with Takata airbags 15 years ago, after a Takata inflator ruptured at one of the car maker’s testing facilities, according to new claims in a class action.
A Federal Court judge has found the ACCC used deceptive and improper means to obtain evidence in its consumer protection case against Apple alleging iPhone and iPad users were misled about their rights, but stopped short of throwing the evidence out.
Volkswagen has been ordered for a third time to provide the court with the names of employees who were involved in approving the emissions cheat software that’s at the center of litigation by Australia’s consumer regulator and several class actions against the German car maker.
Fairfax Media has been fined and hit with a contempt of court order for reneging on its promise to refrain from advertising its Domain business as “the #1 property app in Australia” while a consumer protection case brought against it by realestate.com.au owner REA Group was ongoing.
California-based acai berry company Sambazon Inc. is suing its former Australian distributors, alleging they have falsely co-opted Sambazon’s narrative as pioneers venturing into the heart of the Amazon to source their superfood.
A former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn has been charged in the US with conspiracy and fraud over the car maker’s long-running scam to cheat emissions tests, two months after VW faced trial in Australia over dieselgate.
A Federal Court judge has shot down Kraft’s suggestion that his order blocking it from acting further in a US arbitration between it and Bega over peanut butter trade dress rights should only pertain to its claims and not Bega’s cross-claim.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has asked the Federal Court to hit We Buy Houses and its owner Richard ‘Rick’ Otton with $20 million in penalties for duping aspiring property investors with claims that they would learn how to buy a home for $1.