140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of April 6, 2020

Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 6,2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: 

• PM warns employers will face ‘serious consequences’ if 75% COVID-19 wage subsidies misused

• Antiquated technology holding Ontario's justice system back during COVID-19 crisis

• Summary judgment issued in CIBC employees’ groundbreaking unpaid overtime class action

• A man allegedly teaching his dog to drive was arrested after leading troopers on a chase

• Courts scramble to modernize to keep the system working in a pandemic

• Federal judge blocks Texas order liming abortion access over coronavirus

• Federal juMaine coronavirus: Armed vigilantes blocked a symptom-free neighbor's driveway with a tree to force him into quarantine - CNN

• Landlords can still threaten tenants with evictions, says the province

• Toronto cancels city-led and permitted events to June 30

• A Toronto dentist who pays $10,000 a year for insurance that includes pandemic coverage can’t collect. And he is not alone.

• Appeals court temporarily re-instates Texas order limiting abortion access over coronavirus

• A second US pastor has been charged with violating public orders against large gatherings

• Disobey and pay: Your visit to a closed Ontario playground could cost you $100,000

• Canada Public Safety Minister Bill Blair asks prison, parole heads to consider releasing some inmates to stop spread of COVID-19

• COVID-19 prompts flood of people to write, change their wills — but quarantine measures are getting in the way

• Mandatory quarantine ordered for Torontonians with COVID-19 or who had close contact with anyone infected

• FDA calls for Zantac products to be pulled from market immediately - CNN

• Children’s Aid Society cancelled face-to-face meetings. These parents worry they won’t see their kids for months

• Ontario hospitals urge Doug Ford to clearly state when medical supplies will be replenished

• New bylaw orders Torontonians to keep at least two metres apart in parks, public squares

• Ontario court to consider whether a will can be witnessed online as many Canadians draft new documents - The Globe and Mail

• Ontario pares down the list of essential services during COVID-19 outbreak

• RCMP rescind Calgary-area teen’s $1,200 fine for not practising physical distancing in vehicle

• Class action launched against insurers that won't pay businesses for coronavirus-related losses

• NRA suing New York for deeming gun stores non-essential businesses during coronavirus pandemic

• ‘They can’t self-isolate in there’: Inmates’ loved ones fear it may be too late to stop COVID-19 in Canadian prisons

• Ontario Premier Doug Ford blasts Trump protectionism: ‘When the cards are down, you see who your friends are’

• Coronavirus is throwing child custody agreements into turmoil

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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