“They said, ‘We get 1000s of applicants every year, [but] you’re the only person that’s ever called us.’ And I knew that I was onto something.” Stern returned to law school energized with experience doing legal research and reviewing contracts for a high-profile sports team, sure he wanted to continue that path and work for a sports organization after graduation. After doing another summer with the Raiders and then articling at a labor and employment boutique in Ottawa, Stern rejected the traditional advice to gain a few years of experience as an associate before going in-house. Instead, he made another fateful cold call.…
Unfair Contract Terms change: Is your business ready?
In late 2022, the Treasury Laws Amendment (More Competition, Better Prices) Bill 2022 passed both houses of the federal parliament. The relevant laws take effect from 9 November 2023 and significantly bolster the Unfair Contract Terms (UCT) regime in Australia.For business owners and managers who are unfamiliar with the UCT regime, now is the time to revisit these laws. Unfair Contract TermsUCT laws have been in place since 2010 for consumer contracts, and since 2016 for ‘small business contracts’.The purpose of the UCT laws is to prevent reliance on unfair terms in standard form contracts when dealing with consumers and small businesses.…
Canada’s Online News Act Targets Facebook and Google
The Canadian Parliament has passed a law that will require technology companies to pay domestic news outlets for linking to their articles, prompting the owner of Facebook and Instagram to say that it would pull news articles from both platforms in the country. The law, passed on Thursday, is the latest salvo in a push by governments around the world to force big companies like Google and Facebook to pay for news that they share on their platforms — a campaign that the companies have resisted at virtually every turn. With some caveats, the new Canadian law would force search engines and social media companies to engage in a bargaining process — and binding arbitration, if necessary — for licensing news content for their use.…
VoIP-Pal Provides Legal Update on the Status of Current Patent Litigation
WACO, Texas, June 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — VoIP-Pal.com Inc. (“VoIP-Pal”, “Company”) (OTCQB: VPLM) is pleased to provide a legal update of recent developments in the current patent litigation.At a hearing held on June 12, 2023, in Case No. 6:20-CV-00272-THERE IS the Court granted VoIP-Pal’s motion to consider the Court’s final construction of the term “routing message” and construed the term to mean “a message that includes a callee user name field and a route field.” VoIP-Pal has filed a stipulation dismissing its lawsuit against Samsung in the Western District of Texas (WDTX). As a result of stipulations dismissing the lawsuits against Facebook, Googleand Twitter in the Northern District of Californian (NDCAL), the pending motions for judgment on the pleadings against US Patent Nos.…
Canadian Law Awareness to be mandated for Indian students to prevent tragedies | WorldNews
In a bid to tackle the rising ignorance among Indian students about Canadian laws and rules, the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce (ICCC) is pressing the Immigration Minister to implement a mandatory clause for visa applicants. Murarilal Thapliyal, president of the esteemed Indo-Canadian organization, highlights the severe consequences of this lack of awareness. Mandatory Canada Law Awareness and additional measures to be enforced for visa applicants to ensure the safety of Indian students in Canada(Shutterstock)Tragically, a number of Indian students have lost their lives in road accidents or drowned in ponds due to their unfamiliarity with local laws. The lack of knowledge has also left students vulnerable to depression and, in some devastating cases, suicide.…
Virginia sheriff charged over handing out deputy badges for bribes, US attorney’s office says
CNN —A Virginia sheriff is facing federal fraud and conspiracy charges as the US Justice Department claims he handed out deputy sheriff badges in exchange for money to help fund his election campaign, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Howard Jenkins, 51, and three other Virginia men have been charged with a conspiracy to exchange bribes for law enforcement badges and credentials, the US attorney’s office for the Western District of Virginia said in a statement.The indictment claims that from at least April 2019, Jenkins accepted cash bribes and bribes in the form of campaign contributions totaling at least $72,500 from Rick Tariq Rahim, 55, of Great Falls, Fredric Gumbinner, 64, of Fairfax, James Metcalf, 60, of Manassas, and at least five others, including two FBI undercover agents.…
Ontario dog bite victims say government laws ‘toothless’ after vicious attacks
Two women connected with separate but similar dog attacks on two different southern Ontario trails concur that getting justice through municipal authorities has been a “nightmare.”Tamara Dufour and Leanne Schmidt are convinced two attacks, which come almost a year apart, involve the same dog and owner, who may have circumvented authorities after the animals were designated as “dangerous.” “My adrenaline is surging right now after recounting all of this,” said Schmidt, relaying how his son Kai was attacked by one of two German Shepherds on the rail trail between Paris and Glen Morris in May. “It should have been dealt with the first time it happened 11 months ago.”…
Trump finds no new lawyers for court appearance in Mar-a-Lago case | Donald Trump
Donald Trump is expected to be represented at his first court appearance to face federal criminal charges for retaining national security materials and obstruction of justice by two of his existing lawyers, despite trying to recruit a local Florida lawyer willing to join his legal defense team. The lawyers making an appearance with Trump on Tuesday will be the top former federal prosecutor Todd Blanche and the former Florida solicitor general Chris Kise, according to people familiar with the matter. Trump’s co-defendant, his valet Walt Nauta, will be represented by Stanley Woodward.Trump and his legal team spent the afternoon before his arrangement interviewing potential lawyers but the interviews did not result in any joining the team in time for Trump’s initial court appearance scheduled for 3pm ET on Tuesday after several attorneys declined to take him as a client.…