Gift card judge censured

David Canton — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:13:51 +0000

That’s the title of my Slaw post for today. It reads:

Last year a California class action suit resulted in a settlement where each class member received a $10 gift card from the defendant store. The settlement called for the plaintiff’s lawyer to get $175,000 125,000. (sorry – typo)

The judge who approved the settlement didn’t like it, and ordered the lawyer to also take payment in $10 gift cards from the store.

Boing Boing refers to a post on the Lowering the Bar blog that says that judge has been disciplined for that by the state Commission on Judicial Performance.

No word on the fate of the lawyer’s gift cards.

Class action against Great West Life begins

David Canton — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:34:43 +0000

A London courtroom heard the start of opening arguments yesterday in a class action trial that is scheduled to last 10 weeks. Colleagues of mine at Harrison Pensa are acting for the class – arguing that when GWL bought London Life in 1997, they improperly used policyholder money to finance the purchase. Potential damages are hundreds of millions of dollars.

Coverage of yesterday’s proceedings is in the Toronto Star and the Financial Post. Also see a Toronto Star article from a few days ago.

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Gift card judge censured

Class action against Great West Life begins