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The BC Supreme Court has certified the #classaction filed on behalf of those impacted by the June 30th, 2021 fire in #Lytton community. CFM and Slater Vecchio are counsel for this action.

For info, contact:
Phone: 604-689-7555
Email: [email protected]

Judgement:
www.canlii.org/en/bc/bcsc/d...
December 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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cheknews.ca
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge says a class-action lawsuit against Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways can move ahead after a catastrophic fire in June 2021 burned most of the community of Lytton, B.C.
Class-action lawsuit certified against CN and CP railways over Lytton, B.C., fire
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge says a class-action lawsuit against Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways can move ahead after a catastrophic fire in June 2021 burned most of the community of Lytton, B.C.
cheknews.ca
December 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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thetyee.ca
#Lytton residents will have their class-action lawsuit against Canada’s two major railway companies heard in the B.C. Supreme Court, thanks partly to new evidence of high brake temperatures on a train passing through the community shortly before the town burned.

@amandafollett.bsky.social reports.
A Lytton Fire Class-Action Suit Against Railways Is Going Ahead | The Tyee
A BC Supreme Court justice ruled the evidence that a train sparked the devastating fire is sufficient for a trial.
thetyee.ca
December 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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The Yukon Supreme Court has approved a settlement agreement between families of students at Whitehorse's Jack Hulland Elementary School and the Yukon government. #EndSeclusion
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Yukon court approves Jack Hulland Elementary School settlement | CBC News
The Yukon Supreme Court has approved a settlement agreement between families of students at Whitehorse's Jack Hulland Elementary School and the Yukon government.
endseclusion.info
November 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
cfmlawyers.bsky.social
On Nov 14, the YT Supreme Court approved the settlement between the families of students at Jack Hulland Elementary School and the Yukon government. There will be a claims process available for Class Members to advance claims for compensation.

www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

#classaction #jhes
November 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
cfmlawyers.bsky.social
If you bought or leased a new vehicle that was manufactured overseas or if you purchased Vehicle Carrier Services between Feb 1, 1997 and Dec 31, 2012, you may be a Class Member.

A 3rd settlement has been reached in the Vehicle Carriers (RoRo) #ClassAction.

Please visit:
www.roroclassaction.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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thestar.com
Claims now open in $500-million bread price-fixing class action settlement
Claims now open in $500-million bread price-fixing class action settlement
To claim compensation, eligible Canadian residents who purchased packaged bread between Jan. 1, 2001 and Dec. 31, 2021 must submit a completed claim form by Dec. 12.
www.thestar.com
September 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
cfmlawyers.bsky.social
A settlement has been reached with Yukon.

You are a class member if you were a student at JHES between Jan 1, 2007 - Jun 30, 2022 and were subjected to a hold, restrains and/or locked in a room and/or placed in seclusion.

Please visit:
www.tuckercarruthers.ca
www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action/jhes
September 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
cfmlawyers.bsky.social
The case was advanced by CFM and Howie Sacks & Henry with support from highly qualified experts including Jo Gillespie of Gates Aviation, whose analysis and testimony on conflict zone risk was penetrating and illuminating, helping the court assess the reasonableness of UIA’s conduct.
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cfmlawyers.bsky.social cfmlawyers.bsky.social @cfmlawyers.bsky.social · Aug 21
On Aug 11, 2025 , the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed Ukraine International Airlines’ appeal of a trial judgment finding it liable to pay full compensatory damages under the Montreal Convention to families of the passengers killed in the downing of Flight PS 752 in Jan 2020.
August 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
cfmlawyers.bsky.social
On Aug 11, 2025 , the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed Ukraine International Airlines’ appeal of a trial judgment finding it liable to pay full compensatory damages under the Montreal Convention to families of the passengers killed in the downing of Flight PS 752 in Jan 2020.
August 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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vancouversun.bsky.social
The B.C. co-author of the “100 Mile Diet” has launched class-action lawsuits against four tech giants, including Meta and Nvidia, alleging they used his copyrighted content to train their AI software without compensating him or other authors. Read more:

vancouversun.com/news/bc-auth...
B.C. author leads Canadian class-action against Facebook, Nvidia over AI practices
The co-author of the bestselling 100-Mile Diet alleges tech giants infringed authors' copyright to train large language models. Read more.
vancouversun.com
July 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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oncreativewriting.bsky.social
Vancouver author J.B. MacKinnon launcs a class-action lawsuit against Nvidia, alleging big tech used writers' works to train AI.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-author-leads-class-actions-against-ai-giants-1.7595962
August 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
cfmlawyers.bsky.social
Trial for the Jack Hulland #ClassAction has been postponed for potential settlement talks.

CFM represents students subjected to a hold, restraint, locked room, and/or seclusion between Jan 1, 2007 and Jun 30, 2022.

www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action/jack-hulland-elementary
August 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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avsource.bsky.social
The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld the lower court ruling that Ukraine International Airlines is liable to pay full compensation in the downing of UIA flight PS752 in Iran in January 2020.

aviationsourcenews.com/ontario-cour...

#UkraineAirlines #PS752 #Ukraine #AvGeek #Aviation #Aviationnews
Ontario Court of Appeal Finds Ukrainian Airlines Liable for Downing of Flight PS752
Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled Ukraine International Airlines liable to pay full compensation in the downing of UIA Flight 752 in January 2020.
aviationsourcenews.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
cfmlawyers.bsky.social
The Ontario Court of Appeal upheld a ruling that #UIA must pay full compensation to families who lost loved ones in the downing of Flight 752.

CFM and Howie Sacks & Henry jointly represent these families.

This is an important result for our clients.

Full release: www.newswire.ca/news-release...
August 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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canadahealthwatch.ca
B.C. Supreme Court certifies class-action suit against McKinsey for alleged opioid promotion https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mckinsey-opioid-class-action-lawsuit-purdue-1.7563040

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca
B.C. Attorney General Niki Sharma alleges that McKinsey was underselling the risks associated with opioids and what addictive qualities they had.
June 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
cfmlawyers.bsky.social
On Friday, May 30th, CFM celebrated the birthday of our Chief Morale Officer and Lunch Monitor, Walter Remington!

We hope he's had a fetch-tastic time!
June 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
cfmlawyers.bsky.social
A proposed #classaction lawsuit has been filed against Anthropic PBC.

It's alleged that Anthropic PBC violated copyright held by Canadian authors when training their #AI with the #Book3 dataset without licensing or permission to do so.

To learn more, please visit: www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...
June 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
cfmlawyers.bsky.social
CFM is excited to share that our Articling Student, Brenna Krause, was officially called to the Bar on May 23rd!

This is an amazing milestone in her legal journey and we’re eager to see her continued success in her career.
May 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
cfmlawyers.bsky.social
@law360.bsky.social published an article talking about the new proposed #classaction lawsuit filed against Meta.

To read the full article, please visit:
www.law360.ca/ca/articles/...
Canadian author files class action against Meta for allegedly training AI with copyrighted books - Law360 Canada
Meta and its subsidiary, Facebook Canada, are set to face a proposed class action over its alleged use of copyrighted works of Canadian authors to train its artificial intelligence large language mode...
www.law360.ca
April 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
cfmlawyers.bsky.social
PROPOSED #CLASSACTION FILED AGAINST META

Copyright from book and/or article authors when training their large language AI model, "Llama", allegedly violated copyright as they were unlawfully copied or shared without permission from copyright holders.

Learn more: www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...
April 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
cfmlawyers.bsky.social
CFM & HSH represent the families of 20 people killed by this tragic event. CFM was lead counsel at the trial that found UIA negligent in deciding to operate flight 752 amid escalating tensions between US & Iran.

We're committed to doing all we can as lawyers to prevent a repeat of this tragedy.
cfmlawyers.bsky.social cfmlawyers.bsky.social @cfmlawyers.bsky.social · Apr 8
CFM's honoured to be invited by the gov. of Canada to speak at #SaferSkies2025 - an international initiative to address the risks of commercial aircraft operations in airspace affected by armed conflict. It started in response to the downing of UIA Flight 752 which claimed the lives of 176 people
April 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
cfmlawyers.bsky.social
CFM's honoured to be invited by the gov. of Canada to speak at #SaferSkies2025 - an international initiative to address the risks of commercial aircraft operations in airspace affected by armed conflict. It started in response to the downing of UIA Flight 752 which claimed the lives of 176 people
April 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
cfmlawyers.bsky.social
Settlements with Matsuo and Rubycon in the electrolytic and film capacitors matters and Shizuki in the film capacitors matter.

Settlements must be approved by ON, BC and QC courts before they become effective.

To learn more, visit: www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

#classaction #capacitors
February 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
cfmlawyers.bsky.social
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our brand new website. Over the past year, we've worked tirelessly to create a space to reflect our commitment to excellence and make it easier for you to access the legal support you need.

Check out cfmlawyers.ca to learn more.

#classaction #aviation
February 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM