The Court of Appeal made it clear a Ford government law can’t block the claims of vulnerable people who’ve been ‘harmed by the government’s stupidity’: lawyer
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trilliuma new Village Media website devoted to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.
A law passed by the Ford government to immunize the province from lawsuits has suffered a blow from the Court of Appeal.
And the group of Ontarians at the heart of the court victory couldn’t be more deserving, says a lawyer was involved in the case.
Kirk Baert, a partner at Koskie
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ALBANY, NY — The use of the red flag law in New York has surged over the past year to allow judges to confiscate weapons from people they deem dangerous.
The rise in cases, according to prosecutors and elected officials, has helped quell gun violence in New York after an alarming spike during the Covid-19 pandemic.
With an expanded law and more attention to it, the growth in cases has been extraordinary after it was barely used when it was first passed in 2019. In 2021, there were 538 extreme risk protection orders issued. A year later, the number soared
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Here’s the latest on Ottawa’s national security efforts, a new Ontario health care law and online sales of sodium nitrite.
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Canada is set to name foreign labs and universities that pose a risk to national security
The federal government is in the “advanced stages” of creating a list of entities that threaten national security, the Star has learned. According to documents reviewed by the Star, the list will include foreign-state-connected
(Reuters) – The plaintiffs firm once known as Roche Freedman, now redubbed Freedman Normand Friedland, has been ousted from another crypto class action because of clandestine – and embarrassing — video recordings of onetime name partner Kyle Roche.
But this time, the problem wasn’t the content of the videos, in which Roche appeared to boast of his lucrative stake in blockchain company Ava Labs Inc and to suggest that he filed class actions against Ava competitors to boost Ava’s prospects.
Instead, US District Judge James Donato of San Francisco removed Freedman Normand as lead counsel in a securities fraud class
Howard Levitt, an employment lawyer and Financial Post columnist, and Ryan Alford, a Lakehead law professor, will join the board after two spots opened up
A slate of candidates who positioned themselves as “anti-woke” standard bearers were shut out in the recent Law Society of Ontario election — but two members of that group have since been chosen to join the board of
On March 14 2022, Annie McAdams, a personal injury lawyer running a small firm in Houston, Texas, filed a civil action suit on behalf of one of her clients. The plaintiff was a 23-year-old woman who had endured years of sexual exploitation at the hands of a convicted trafficker. The defendant was one of the most powerful technology companies in the world.
Contained within McAdams’s federal suit was a series of allegations that Meta – the owner of Facebook and Instagram, which are used by more than 3 billion people every day – had knowingly created a breeding ground
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