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Appellants, Douglass Ebner, 2253 Cedar Point LLC, and 2243 Cedar Point LLC appealed the judgment of the Erie County Court of Common Pleas, which granted summary judgment in favor of appellee, the City of Sandusky, on Ebner’s counterclaims that Sandusky Ordinance Nos. 12-107 and 17-088 were invalidly enacted and were unconstitutional. The litigation at issue was initiated on October 31, 2017, when Ebner’s neighbor, Judith Kinzel, filed a complaint against Ebner seeking injunctive relief and damages. Specifically, Kinzel alleged that Ebner’s use of the properties for short-term rentals was in violation of…
Andrew Yat-Cheung Lau took money from clients’ trust funds before performing any legal work and failed to remit GST and PST to officials.A BC lawyer who misappropriated trust funds and failed to remit GST and PST collected from clients to fund personal financial difficulties has been disbarred by the Law Society of BC.
Andrew Yat-Cheung Lau will no longer be able to practice law in BC following a hearing panel ruling issued April 6. The panel found Lau had committed professional misconduct in relation to six allegations.
Lau collected tax payments from clients but failed to remit the funds…
Karen Read faces charges that she struck the man she loved with her car and left him to die in the cold, but defense attorneys say the death of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe is anything but her fault.
Instead, the defense team’s recent court filings blatantly state, police should be looking to two others present at the party for culpability in O’Keefe’s death.
“Ms. Read’s defense is predicated, in no small part, on a third-party culpability of defense,” wrote defense attorney Alan Jackson, a Los Angeles-based lawyer who joined the team last September, in an affidavit filed on April…
If the property is in your name only, it is sometimes the belief that the other person should be the one to leave. However there are circumstances, in particular if you have children, where you may be wise to think differently.
In instances where, for example, the other parent has no means to pay rent to live elsewhere, effectively leaving them unable to put a roof over the head of their child, then a Court would look less favorable on you. This is because in family law, where children are involved, the ‘best interests of the child’ is to be…
A Ruling and Order issued on April 28, 2023 by the US District Court for the District of Connecticut in United States v. Patel, et al. ran the government’s losing streak to four failed trials seeking to criminally prosecute alleged wage-fixing and no-poach agreements.
To review, in 2016 the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued Antitrust Guidance for Human Resources Professionals that warned of potential criminal prosecutions for so-called “naked” no-poach agreements, ie , agreements among competing businesses to restrict hiring or compensation of employees, untethered to any legitimate collaborative relationship.Since 2020, the DOJ…
TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / April 25, 2023 /Tsodilo Resources Limited (“Tsodilo” or the “Company”) (TSX- V:TSD)(OTCQB:TSDRF)(FSE:TZO) wishes to provide a corporate update with respect to its legal action Botswana Ministry of Minerals & Energy (MME ).
Oral Argument was held in the High Court in Maun, Botswana on April 18, 2023, with respect to the Ministry of Minerals and Energy’s (MME) decision to not renew Prospecting License PL020/2018 held by the Company’s Botswana subsidiary, Gcwihaba Resources (Pty ) Limited.
The litigation landing page has been updated with the parties’ documents filed with the court. The judge has indicated that…
Two hospitals that refused to provide an emergency abortion to a pregnant woman who was experiencing premature labor put her life in jeopardy and violated federal law, a first-of-its-kind investigation by the federal government has found.The findings, revealed in documents obtained by The Associated Press, are a warning to hospitals around the country as they struggle to reconcile dozens of new state laws that ban or strictly restrict abortion with a federal mandate for doctors to provide abortions when a woman’s health is at risk. The competing edicts have been rolled out since the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional…
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CanadaAs the culture wars seep into various institutions, law societies have hardly been immunePublished May 01, 2023 • 4 minute readToronto’s Osgoode Hall, home of the Law Society of Ontario. Photo by Stan Behal/Postmedia/FileArticle content
In the fight for control of the Law Society of Ontario, a slate of progressive candidates held the line against a group positioning themselves as the “anti-woke” alternative in board elections.Advertisements 2This advertisement has not been loaded yet, but your article continues below.THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS
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