The first-of-its-kind ruling ending a £482.5 million ($648 million) collective action against Qualcomm provides crucial guidance on how the courts will scrutinize settlements that leave class members without compensation, lawyers say.
The first-of-its-kind ruling ending a £482.5 million ($648 million) collective action against Qualcomm provides crucial guidance on how the courts will scrutinize settlements that leave class members without compensation, lawyers say.
Fitch Ratings secretly adjusted its credit rating models in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis to generate artificially high credit ratings for complex debt investments, motivated by a desire to grow its revenues, an investment firm said in its latest claim against a major rating agency.
Fieldfisher urged an appeals court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that it unfairly dismissed an associate after an internal investigation into sexual assault allegations, arguing that a judge impermissibly found that the woman who accused the lawyer had lied.
A British woman diagnosed with an "aggressive cancer with limited therapeutic options" has accused insurance giant AXA of wrongfully refusing to pay out to cover her treatment.
Litigation funder Burford Capital told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that the justices' decision this year finding federal courts that have sent a dispute to arbitration retain jurisdiction in subsequent enforcement proceedings was enough to warrant undoing a Third Circuit decision the company called erroneous.
Accord has sued a unit of pharma giant Takeda to revoke two of its patents covering treatment regimens for Crohn's disease, arguing that similar methods were explored in research elsewhere before the unit sought patent protection.
Outsourcing company Mitie has beaten a race discrimination claim from an Afro-Caribbean security officer, convincing a tribunal that an administrative error caused its delay in providing a voucher recognizing his long service.
An employment tribunal has ordered an engineering firm to pay £22,253 ($29,878) to a female former staffer after a male manager made derogatory comments suggesting she was menopausal during a difficult moment in her life and forced her to quit.
The Singapore International Commercial Court's recent decision to dismiss an application for supervisory relief from a Singapore International Arbitration Centre final costs award illustrates the limits of converting adverse financial consequences into public policy objections, even where the commercial result is severe, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.
