Sotos Class Actions

Price-fixing conspiracies harm retailers and consumers by forcing them to pay unlawful overcharges on products and services.  The Competition Act, which regulates business conduct throughout Canada, allows retailers and consumers to recover any losses that they suffered as a result of such unlawful conspiracies.  Without this important remedy, retailers and consumers could not obtain compensation […]

A class action lawsuit seeking $10 million in damages on behalf of Canadian consumers who purchased Lenovo computers that came with pre-installed Superfish software (“Superfish“) was launched March 11, 2015 in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. As stated in the claim, “Superfish is potentially dangerous and may allow anyone on a Wi-Fi network to […]

When two separate class actions are brought over the same subject matter, courts are sometimes required to decide which action should take precedence and which team of lawyers should be given “carriage” of the dispute. The court found that the class members would be best served by allowing the claim brought by the Sotos/Siskinds team to proceed and by staying the competing action.