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Australia High Court hears submissions on Cambridge Analytica data breaches

JURIST

The issues to be addressed include whether a foreign corporation can “carry on business” in Australia if it has no other commercial activities or domestic business and whether the requirement of a “prima facie case” requires evidence that could support inferences sufficient to establish the cause of action.

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WHAT IS ASSOCIATIONAL DISCRIMINATION?

JayS.Rothman&Associates

This means that employees cannot suffer adverse actions simply because someone they associate with engaged in legally-protected activity, such as blowing the whistle. Employees who do suffer such actions may have a legal cause of action. What types of relationships constitute an “association”?

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Supreme Court will decide easement, sentencing cases

At the Lectern

The unpublished 20-page opinion held the plaintiff had not pleaded a cause of action under Civil Code section 51.9 , that provides liability for sexual harassment in certain relationships between providers of professional services and their clients. Visit Elk Grove. in light of Paragraph 122 of the third amended complaint.”

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New rules on service outside Australia for the Federal Court of Australia

Conflict of Laws

Leave to serve turned on three conditions: the court had subject matter jurisdiction, the claim was of a kind mentioned in the rules, and the party had a prima facie case for any or all of the relief claimed: FCR r 10.43(4). That rule set out pigeonholes or connecting factors that are familiar grounds of direct jurisdiction.

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