140Law: Legal Headlines for the Week of June 20, 2016

Here are the leading headlines from Wise Law on Twitter

• Pot friendly gym, 420 Games eye Canada in expansion plans

• Smell test key in music copyright cases

• New trial ordered for Jesse Ventura defamation verdict

• Microsoft to purchase LinkedIn for $26.2 billion

• Divisional Court decision blow to vexatious tenant litigants

• U of T lockdown lifted after police find no evidence of gun on campus

• SCC Reaffirms Primacy Of Solicitor-Client Privilege, as Income Tax Act Provisions Held Unconstitutional 

• Oscar Pistorius Is Unfit to Testify at Sentencing, Psychologist Says

• Iran’s anger over Ontario court ruling threatens Liberal attempts to mend diplomatic ties

• Lawyer Joseph Groia loses appeal of LSUC incivility ruling

• Free TV for life? Cable giants granted court injunction to stamp it out

• Guiste: Court of Appeal Dismisses Groia Appeal with a Powerful Dissent from Brown J.A.

• Federal, Quebec justice ministers ask CJC for new hearing on Girouard

• Sumner Redstone moves to oust Viacom board members

• Liberals reject Senate proposal to cut near-death proviso in assisted-dying bill

• New Ontario Superior Court Justices appointed by Government of Canada

• Assisted dying to become law after Senate backs Liberals' bill

• Nazi death camp guard, 94, convicted of being accessory to thousands of murders

• An Expensive Law Degree, and No Place to Use It

• Workplace Harassment, A Changing Legislative Landscape

• Prosecutors drop drug trafficking case against FedEx

• ‘Joint-employer’ status could rattle franchise industry: ‘It will be a game-changer’

• Ontario Court of Appeal confirms tribunal’s reinstatement order 12 years after employee fired

• The Ontario government is quietly gearing up for legalized marijuana sales.

• Fixed Term Contracts: How Two Weeks' Pay Became Over 27 Months Wages

• Court’s permission necessary for assisted dying, Ontario judge rules

• New York State Lawmakers Vote to Legalize Fantasy Sports

• Tax agency liens Conrad Black property, fears he will skip town, won’t pay up on disputed taxes

• Toronto marijuana shop operators call charges ‘ridiculous’

• Assisted Dying Finally Becomes Law

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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