Lawsuit Follows Super Bowl Seating Fiasco Although Super Bowl XLV has become the most watched television program in history, the seating fiasco at the stadium has prompted legal action from some ticket holders: a class-action lawsuit against the Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, the Dallas Cowboys , and the NFL seeking $5 million in damages. […]
Nutella – Delicious and Not Healthy? A California woman is bringing a class action lawsuit against Nutella, alleging that Ferraro USA Inc., the maker of Nutella, “falsely and misleadingly markets Nutella as healthful” even though it “contains 70% saturated fat and processed sugar by weight”. The plaintiff also claims that she was “shocked” to learn […]
Degree of Responsibility on the Line As Google Goes to Court Google has gone to court in Spain to appeal government demands that it delete links to websites containing information about certain individuals. While Google has shown itself willing to remove content in criminal contexts, the Internet search giant fears a ruling against it in […]
The Tucson Tragedy On Saturday, January 8, the United States was rocked by gun violence as twenty people were shot at a political event occurring outside a grocery store in Tucson, Arizona. Of the twenty who were shot, six – including chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Arizona, John Roll – died. The […]
Coulter v Canada "Our usually calm Canadian neighbors are screaming at each other and one American woman has everything to do with it," the Associated Press declared this week in its coverage of the Ann Coulter affair. Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly called protesters' behaviour "un-Canadian." Ezra Levant agreed. Now several days after the infamous letter, the camel comment and the […]
U.S. Anti-Corruption Law Hurting Haiti's Re-building Efforts? A throwaway line near the end of an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal this week has got bloggers buzzing about whether a U.S. anti-corruption law may be deterring foreign investment in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, thus inhibiting the small island nation's efforts to rebuild itself. WSJ editorial board member Mary […]
Old Legal Debts and the Indian Act The Financial Legal Post's Julius Melnitzer says that Borden Ladner Gervais' [BLG] appeal in Borden & Elliot v Temagami First Nation (see [2009] 3 CNLR 30) "is shaping up as potentially embarrassing to BLG, if not downright ugly." Others might put it more strongly, actually, in that BLG's alleged […]
A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court of Canada ("SCC") denied leave to appeal in Slahi v Canada (Justice), 2009 FCA 259, first canvassed on TheCourt.ca by Padraic Ryan here. My post aims to briefly examine the international law aspects of the case and their relation to the Charter.
SCOTUS Chief to (Not) Retire Breaking news: John Roberts, the Chief Justice of the United States, is retiring "for personal reasons," Radar online reported yesterday. Actually, just kidding! Radar, known more for following Hollywood celebrities than Supreme Court justices, retracted the story less than an hour later, but not before it had ricocheted across the Web: The Huffington […]
SCC Poised for Retirement Boom In case you weren't keeping track, seven of the Supremes will be eligible to retire by next year. "The impending retirements could give Prime Minister Stephen Harper, or whoever succeeds him as prime minister, a rare opportunity to overhaul the top court’s composition and thereby perhaps influence or reshape the […]