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- Riding the wave: recent developments with class action waivers
A class action waiver is a contractual term — usually found in a contract between an individual and a company — that stipulates that the individual will not participate in a class proceeding against the company and instead commits to resolving disputes on an individual basis. Such terms mitigate a c … Read more »
- The ride isn’t over: Uber v Heller certified as a class action
The battle between the ride-sharing company Uber and its Drivers continues, and continues to inform Canadian law. The Driver Class argues that they are Uber employees and entitled to employee protections; Uber argues they are independent contractors. But that is not the main subject of any of the li … Read more »
- Saskatchewan court denies certification of Cambridge Analytica class action
Editor’s Note: In a recent Osler Update, Mark Gelowitz, Robert Carson, and Lauren Harper discussed a recent Saskatchewan case denying certification against Facebook. A condensed version of the update is reproduced below. On July 14, 2021, the Court of Queen’s Bench for Saskatchewan dismissed the pla … Read more »
- No conspiracy without ‘some evidence’; concludes Superior Court of Québec when dismissing proposed class action
On June 28, 2021, in the case of Hazan v. Micron Technology Inc. the Québec Superior Court dismissed an application for authorization to institute a class action alleging a conspiracy to restrict the production and fix the prices of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), a flash memory component inst … Read more »
- Where the rubber meets the road: Evidentiary burdens and gain-based remedies in product liability class actions
The Alberta Court of Appeal recently overturned a class certification order and made important comments on a representative plaintiff’s evidentiary burden at the certification stage, as well as on the viability of claims for gain-based remedies (i.e., restitution and disgorgement) in the context of … Read more »