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Case Update - Re Timminco Limited

by Dentons on 2/17/2012

Re Timminco Limited (2012) ONSC 506 (Ont. Commercial List) and (2012) ONSC 948 (Ont. Commercial List). Timminco Limited and Bécancour Silicon Inc. (together the “Timminco Entities”) sought and...more

Management Update - July 2011

by FordHarrison on 8/3/2011

In this issue: Supreme Court Rejects Nation-Wide Sex Discrimination Class Action; Nevada Prohibits Discrimination Based Upon a Person's "Gender Identity or Expression"; and Refusal to Hire Applicant Did Not Violate Bankruptcy...more

Perry v. Schwarzenegger and Marriage Equality: Where Do We Stand?

by Christopher Buechler on 7/15/2011

An update on the federal Prop. 8 trial in California and the 9th Circuit and other federal marriage equality litigation....more

Supreme Court Tightens Class Action Rules, Rejecting Class Composed of 1.5 Million Wal-Mart Employees

by Proskauer Rose LLP on 6/21/2011

In Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, No. 10-277 (U.S. June 20, 2011), the Supreme Court vacated class certification of a gender discrimination lawsuit brought by 1.5 million current and former Wal-Mart employees because the...more

Betesh Partnership Litigation changes insolvency law relating to the evidential threshold required to set aside a statutory...

by Lee Lipson on 2/2/2011

Betesh Partnership Litigation changes insolvency law relating to the evidential threshold required to set aside a statutory demand. See attached article from the Law Gazette 15th May 2008...more

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