The judge who tossed a class action by Quintis’ shareholders should have found a restatement of assets would have materially affected the sandalwood company’s share price “as a matter of common sense”, a court has been told.
The applicants in an unsuccessful class action against the founder of sandalwood producer Quintis and auditor EY is challenging the dismissal of his case — the sixth shareholder class action to fail at trial.
A judge has vacated an upcoming trial date in a data scraping case against US-based CoreLogic to allow the analytics company more time to respond to a “weighty” report by a forensic accountant.
The funder of a failed class action against the founder of sandalwood producer Quintis and EY and has been hit with costs, despite arguing the order would set a bad precedent.
Gaming company Light & Wonder has hit back at Aristocrat’s intellectual property case, arguing that allegedly confidential information about the popular Dragon Link poker game was not trade secrets.
Green iron start-up Element Zero has said it will fight Fortescue’s bid to access nearly nine million documents collected under a controversial search order in the mining giant’s case alleging former employees misappropriated its process for carbon dioxide-free iron.
US-based analytics company CoreLogic has lost its bid for further particulars in building information provider BCI’s case alleging it scraped content from its LeadManager platform to improve a competing product and procure customers.
A court has found that an employee of a custom keycap business breached her fiduciary duties and infringed the company’s copyright when she launched a competing business using unlawfully downloaded company templates.
The funder that backed a failed shareholder class action against an ex-Quintis director and EY is fighting a bid for a third-party costs order, arguing such orders shouldn’t be imposed on funders where there is no doubt they will pay up.
Green iron start-up Element Zero has lost its latest bid to set aside search orders in a case by Fortescue alleging former employees misappropriated its process for carbon dioxide-free iron.