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Brisbane-based sporting goods wholesaler FE Sports has been fined $350,000 for engaging in resale price maintenance that prohibited dealers from advertising certain products for less than the recommended retail price.
A judge has refused to summarily dismiss proceedings brought by the ACCC against office supply company Fuji Xerox over allegedly unfair contracts with small businesses.
The Federal Government has argued a class action against the expansion of a northern NSW mine has "conspicuously failed" to show that the emissions would contribute to "catastrophic harm", but a judge has questioned the Commonwealth's contention that other countries would be responsible for the emissions.
Tech giant Apple will not be forced to hand over documents about Australian users to Epic Games ahead of argument on Apple's application to shut down the game maker's competition case, a judge has ruled, likening Epic's imprecise notice to produce to the "cheerful pastime of drift netting".
A judge has raised the possibility of referring a class action against the Morrison government for allegedly contaminating Indigenous land with toxic firefighting foam to the Full Federal Court due to novel questions the case raises about whether damages can be recovered for cultural loss.
Norwegian shipping company Wallenius Wilhlmsen Ocean has been fined $24 million for conspiring to fix the rates charged for shipping vehicles to Australia, bringing the total fines won by the ACCC over the shipping cartel to $83.5 million.
Apple wants to stay a competition lawsuit brought by video game developer Epic Games in Australia, claiming a clause in its developer contract requires any dispute between them to be heard in a California court.
Norway-based shipping company Wallenius Wilhlmsen Ocean AS has pleaded guilty to one charge of criminal cartel conduct, but told a court the penalty should be discounted from the maximum by over 50 per cent.
Cigno has appealed a ruling shooting down its challenge to the first action brought by ASIC under its powers to prohibit 'predatory' financial products, which targeted the payday lender's model of short-term credit lending.
A judge has found that the law firm behind a plethora of pelvic mesh lawsuits filed in multiple courts should be personally hit with costs for its "keystone cop-like conduct" in handling the proceedings, but has given the firm a week to convince him otherwise.