Cy Pres Settlements (Or, How Charities Can Benefit From Class Actions)
In fall 2010, Siskinds was retained to bring a proposed class action against Toronto Hydro-Electric System Limited (Toronto Hydro) on allegations that the utility company illegally charged interest at a rate of 19.56% per year. By way of background: The Interest Act requires that where interest is “chargeable, payable or recoverable” at a rate in excess...
Continue reading the post titled Cy Pres Settlements (Or, How Charities Can Benefit From Class Actions)Protecting Your Brand
Stacey Bothwell asks the question, “Are you protecting your brand properly? Â How do you distinguish your goods and services from others in the marketplace? Is it a quirky logo? Is it a coined word? Is it a piece of property that you have adequately protected? Are you protecting your brand? Nike spends millions of...
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Continue reading the post titled SalmonSocial Cost of Carbon
How much should we spend reducing carbon emissions? What will the cost be if we don’t? US federal lawmakers are required to consider the “social cost of carbon” when issuing significant rules, as part of their overall cost/benefit analysis. But how do they calculate it?
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Continue reading the post titled DiamondsCathode Ray Tubes (“CRT”)
The CRT class action relates to allegations that from between March 1995 to November 2007 the defendants unlawfully conspired to fix, increase, and/or maintain prices at which CRTs and products containing CRTs were sold in Canada. Siskinds and Siskinds Desmeules filed class actions in Ontario and Quebec respectively. CRTs are a form of display devices...
Continue reading the post titled Cathode Ray Tubes (“CRT”)Can MLM businesses ever sell on third-party sites? Never say never.
Every MLM business knows that selling products through third-parties such as Amazon or eBay should never be allowed… but is this actually the case? What if MLM companies did sell products in big box stores or on Amazon? This blog post considers the legal and practical consequences of when an MLM company does exactly that....
Continue reading the post titled Can MLM businesses ever sell on third-party sites? Never say never.Cy-prés distributions – Honouring “as close as possible”
In a previous blog post we had discussed the origin of cy-près distributions and their benefits. In sum, cy-près distributions help to enforce one of the public policy rationales behind class actions: behaviour modification by holding wrongdoers accountable for their actions. Where it is no longer economically feasible to distribute an award to individual class...
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