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Gina Rinehart’s daughter loses appeal bid to dodge arbitration over $4B family trust
The NSW Court of Appeal has refused to grant Bianca Rinehart leave to appeal a decision staying a lawsuit against her mother Gina Rinehart over ownership of a $4 billion family trust.
Judge finds documents from Google’s ‘Oh Shit’ meeting relevant to penalty
Google will have to hand over documents relating to its infamous 'Oh Shit' meeting to the ACCC, with a  judge finding the material was "sufficiently likely" to be relevant to any penalties the search giant will face for misleading consumers about use of their location data.
ACCC says Google’s ‘Oh Shit’ meeting relevant to penalty in location privacy case
The ACCC wants Google to produce documents related to its infamous 'Oh Shit' meeting, which the consumer regulator says will be relevant to the tech giant's state of mind and the judge's penalty in a case over representations to users about their location data.
‘Serious breach of trust’: ACCC wins appeal in Google ads case against Employsure
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has won a challenge to a ruling that tossed its case against specialist workplace relations company Employsure, with an appeals court finding the regulator was right that the company had misled small businesses into signing long term contracts via Google ads that appeared to be government affiliated.
Bristol-Myers Squibb denies claims in Merck Sharp & Dohme’s misuse of market power case
Pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb will fight a case brought by Merck Sharp & Dohme alleging misuse of market power over stage IV melanoma treatments, telling the Federal Court on Friday it denied its rival's claims.
Full Court may decide critical question in superannuation class actions
The lead applicant in a Maurice Blackburn-led class action against superannuation provider Colonial First State wants the Full Court to determine whether group members still have valid claims, after a judgment from the Victoria Supreme Court shut down a similar class action last year.
Bristol-Myers Squibb accused of misusing market power with cancer treatment program
Merck Sharp & Dohme has filed a lawsuit accusing rival drug company Bristol-Myers Squibb of misusing its market power by restricting access to a treatment program for stage IV melanoma patients.
Facebook says ACCC’s data collection allegations ‘overstated’
Facebook has accused the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission of overstating the amount of data it collected on users through its discontinued Onavo Protect mobile app, and says the collection was allowed under its terms of service.
Grant Thornton can bring cross-claim against Forge Group
Grant Thornton has won approval to a bring a cross-claim against Forge Group, just three months ahead of trial in the collapsed engineering company's case against the accounting firm and ten former directors for their alleged negligence in relation to its "uneconomic" purchase of CTEC in 2012.
Google misled users about location data privacy, judge rules
Google misled or is likely to have misled some reasonable users of its Android devices about the digital giant's use of their location data, a judge has found in a win for the consumer regulator.