Background: Tjhin Thian Po, also known as Paulus Tannos, was arrested in Singapore in January 2025 following Indonesia’s request for his extradition over his alleged involvement in corruption connected with the e-KTP government procurement project. While remanded pending committal proceedings in the State Courts, he challenged documents underlying the extradition request, including an Indonesian-language “Surat Perintah…
Held: The High Court dismissed the application in its entirety. It held that the bail request had been brought through the wrong procedure: the High Court’s bail jurisdiction under the Criminal Procedure Code is revisionary, and an applicant must proceed by criminal revision or criminal motion rather than a civil originating application. The proceeding also was not genuinely an application for…
Background: Bnei Sakhnin was scheduled to host Maccabi Haifa on May 16, 2022, in an Israeli Premier League football match that could have resulted in Maccabi Haifa winning the championship. Because of a disciplinary sanction, the match was moved from Bnei Sakhnin’s home stadium to HaMoshava Stadium in Petah Tikva. Police required approximately 180 qualified stewards…
Held: Justice Ofer Grosskopf denied leave to appeal without requesting a response. He stressed that interlocutory review of class-certification decisions depends principally on the proceeding’s economic consequences for the defendant, the procedural benefit of immediate review, and, in exceptional cases, obvious defects in the certification decision. Bnei Sakhnin did not establish any of those grounds. The burdens ordinarily associated with defending…
Background: Mackie Motors (Brechin) Limited operated Renault, Nissan and Dacia dealerships in Scotland. In November 2021, after RCI Financial Services raised money-laundering concerns, Renault and Nissan withdrew Mackie Motors’ access to systems used to order vehicles and parts and perform other dealership functions. RCI subsequently terminated its financing contracts on seven days’ notice. Mackie Motors sold…
Held: The High Court dismissed the strike-out application. Applying a broad, merits-based assessment, it held that the current action was not an abuse of process. Renault and Nissan had not been parties to the earlier claim, the claims now advanced against them had not previously been adjudicated, and there was no sufficient indication that the new proceedings constituted oppressive or unjust…
Background: This costs decision followed the plaintiff’s success at trial against Amaca Pty Ltd. The Court had awarded $157,598.18, clear of the refund payable to WorkCover Queensland, to Philip Nigel Greenall as legal personal representative of Walter Greenall’s estate.
Held: Smith J held that s 318A did not bar an award of costs. Although the Act’s costs division applied generally to a worker with a terminal condition, its operative provisions concerning written final offers could not be applied because no such offers had been made. The general costs powers in s 15 of the Civil Proceedings Act 2011 (Qld) and…
Background: Gilead develops and sells prescription medications, including the HIV drug Biktarvy, in the United States and abroad. After a Maryland patient received Turkish-market Biktarvy through his employer’s self-funded health plan, Gilead investigated and found that Rx Valet, Advanced Pharmacy, Affordable Rx, and Gregory Santulli had arranged for hundreds of bottles of foreign-market Gilead medications to…
Held: The Fourth Circuit affirmed. Adopting the material-differences doctrine for gray-market goods, the court held that Gilead was likely to prove direct infringement because the imported medications were not genuine for Lanham Act purposes. Their foreign-language labels, omitted warnings and prescribing information, missing National Drug Code numbers, and other regulatory differences met the doctrine’s low materiality threshold. The drugs also bypassed…
Background: Aziza Shango arrived in Canada in June 2019 with five associated applicants, whom she initially presented as her biological children. They sought refugee protection against the Democratic Republic of the Congo and submitted Congolese birth records and a declaration that identity documents had been lost. When border officials questioned inconsistencies in those records, Shango admitted…
Held: The Federal Court dismissed the application for judicial review. Justice Tsimberis held that the Refugee Appeal Division reasonably concluded that the applicants had failed to establish their identities on a balance of probabilities. Because identity and nationality are foundational to assessing a refugee claim, that failure was fatal to the claims.
Background: LSL, LLC owns a 22.38-acre undeveloped parcel in Madison that fronts Long Island Sound and includes a private beachfront known as Mud Beach. Lili and John Foggle are members of LSL, LLC. Catherine Carrabba, as trustee of The Kristin Lyons Revocable Trust, owns an adjoining property where she resides with her husband, Stephen Carrabba. The…
Held: The Connecticut Appellate Court affirmed. It held that when no recorded instrument delineates or supports an easement and no absolute necessity exists, a claimant seeking an implied easement based on prior use must establish both that the grantor intended the easement at the time of severance and that the easement is reasonably necessary for the use and normal enjoyment of…
Background: Ronald Levart Hill was charged under the former version of Michigan’s ethnic-intimidation statute after allegedly threatening a rideshare driver because of her race or ethnicity. The driver reportedly pulled into a gas station and hid in a bathroom until police arrived. Hill also faced charges arising from his interaction with police and an alleged refusal…
Held: The Michigan Court of Appeals held that an instruction under former MCL 750.147b(1)(c) must require the prosecution to prove that the defendant maliciously threatened the complainant. The statute expressly imposed malice as the applicable mens rea, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Counterman v. Colorado did not permit the trial court to substitute recklessness. Counterman established a constitutional minimum…
Background: David M. Pyke served as dependent administrator of Stacy Lynn Fuchsman’s intestate estate. The estate’s principal assets were residential properties in Carrollton and Plano. With the probate court’s authorization, Pyke employed real-estate professionals to sell both properties, and the estate paid approved brokerage commissions totaling five percent of each sale.
Held: The Second Court of Appeals held that the probate court abused its discretion by denying Pyke a statutory commission on the estate’s qualifying cash receipts. Section 352.002(a) mandates a five percent commission on qualifying cash received or paid when an administrator has properly cared for and managed the estate, subject to the statute’s exclusions and aggregate cap. Net cash proceeds…
Background: James Lineberger and the other appellants prevailed in a quiet-title action concerning a boundary dispute with Caryl Newberry. After Newberry appealed, the Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s decree. While that first appeal was pending, the appellants moved for attorney fees and litigation costs under OCGA § 9-15-14, but the trial court did not…
Held: The Court of Appeals affirmed. Under OCGA §§ 9-11-41(e) and 9-2-60(b), an action automatically stands dismissed when no written order signed by the judge and filed with the clerk is entered for five years. A notice of hearing did not satisfy that requirement, and the appellants neither obtained a ruling on their fee motion nor secured a written continuance by…
Background: The dispute arose from US$372,043.70 advanced to Philip Gaffney for a QVC souvenir order. His brothers, Alan and Derek Gaffney, successfully established in 2022 that the money was a short-term loan, not an investment. The High Court entered judgment against Philip Gaffney, and later appeals resulted in judgment also being entered against Teresa Gaffney. The…
Held: The Court of Appeal held that any purported appeal concerning the 2016 and 2017 loan proceedings or the judgment-mortgage proceedings could not proceed: those matters had been finally and conclusively determined, and the court had no jurisdiction to entertain a collateral challenge to their orders. The only potentially appealable matter was the strikeout of the 2018 proceedings, which had occurred…
Background: This consolidated putative class action challenges 3G Capital Inc.’s take-private acquisition of Skechers U.S.A. Inc., announced in May 2025 and closed in September 2025. The class plaintiffs allege that 3G and Skechers insiders breached fiduciary duties by undervaluing Skechers through a flawed process that provided unique benefits to purported controlling stockholders.
Held: Vice Chancellor Will granted FMI’s motion, appointing FMI as lead plaintiff. The court appointed Saxena White P.A. and Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP as co-lead counsel, with Friedman Oster & Tejtel PLLC and Julie & Holleman LLP as additional counsel. The court denied the other three leadership applications.