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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.

A former tenured professor is seeking $2 million from the University of New South Wales, alleging she was terminated after making complaints about discrimination, bullying and misuse of her intellectual property.

The Full Federal Court took a "radical" and unorthodox approach with far-reaching consequences by keeping Apple's competition dispute with Fortnite game maker Epic Games in Australia, the Silicon Valley giant has told the High Court.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has brought legal action against three major Australian internet providers for allegedly misleading hundreds of thousands of NBN customers.

Sydney's ongoing COVID-19 lockdown has created "logistical" difficulties delaying the release of a long awaited judgment in the ACCC's consumer law case against collapsed private college Phoenix Institute, which was accused of misleading students through the marketing of its courses.

The consumer regulator has launched court proceedings against luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz for allegedly exposing consumers to serious injury or death by failing to comply with obligations under a compulsory recall of potentially deadly Takata airbags.

When trial begins next month in the ACCC's cartel case against BlueScope Steel, the parties will all appear by video, with a judge saying "hybrid" hearings - where some parties are in court and others appear by video - were "unsatisfactory".

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has appealed a judge's decision throwing out its competition case over an agreement for the privatisation of two NSW ports, calling the case "a matter of significance for the Australian economy".

Queensland crane company NQCranes wants to strike out the bulk of the ACCC's amended case alleging a conspiracy with a multinational rival to divide the Brisbane and Newcastle markets, saying there was no evidence of the regulator's new allegations of a second cartel agreement.

A judge has hit women's activewear company Lorna Jane with a $5 million penalty for representing to consumers during the height of the coronavirus crisis last year that its activewear would protect them from viruses including COVID-19.