(SPAC) Special Purpose Acquisition Investigation: PWP,

SAN DIEGO, March 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Shareholder rights law firm Johnson Fistel, LLP is investigating potential violations of law in connection with the following special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”): Perella Weinberg Partners f/k/a Fintech Acquisition Corporation IV (NASDAQ: PWP) Porch.com f/k/a PropTech Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ: PRCH) Shift Technologies, Inc. f/k/a Insurance Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ: SFT): Skillsoft Corp. f/k/a Churchill Capital Corporation II (NYSE: SKIL) If you are an investor purchasing any of the SPACs below and suffering losses: Click or paste the following web address into your browser to submit your information: Perella Weinberg Partners f/k/a Fintech Acquisition…Continue Reading

What is Communication & modes of Communication under the Indian Contract Act?

According to Section 2(h) of the Indian Contract Act 1872, An agreement enforceable by law is a contract. Before a contract comes into existence the promisor has to signify his willingness and a promise has to signify his assent. It, therefore, becomes necessary to explain what is meant by such signification and what should be the mode of the same. To bring into notice the willingness or assent of the parties to enter into a contract one needs to communicate. This mode of communication can be postal or instantaneous. Section 3 of the Indian Contract Act states that communication can…Continue Reading

Lifespans into the 140s predicted by centuries-old Gompertz law

Dividing changes in mortality rates between compression and postponement. credits: PLOS ONE (2023). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281752A recent paper in the journal PLOS ONE suggests that humans have yet to reach their maximum age and that there might not even be one. In the paper, “Mortality postponement and compression at older ages in human cohorts,” David Mcarthy of the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, and his former Ph.D. student, Po-Lin Wang, currently at Muma College of Business, University of Southern Florida, use mathematical modeling of longevity trends, without reference to any biological, social or medical science to extrapolate the…Continue Reading

Gwyneth Paltrow’s expert witness endures scathing cross-examination by the plaintiff’s attorney

An expert witness in Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski collision trial claimed plaintiff Terry Sanderson’s health symptoms could be linked to dementia rather than the 2016 ski collision. Sanderson was suing Paltrow for $300,000, claiming he was severely injured when Paltrow rammed into him from behind during a day on the slopes at Utah’s Deer Valley Resort. Neuropsychologist Angela Eastvold endured a scathing cross-examination by Sanderson’s lawyers after she told the jury the retired optometrist’s decline in cognition could be connected to possible dementia or even anxiety. She noted that “anxiety was playing a big role in her perceived difficulties” when she…Continue Reading

Trump lawyer ordered to testify in classified documents case in landmark ruling, sources say

Evan Corcoran has been ordered to testify, piercing attorney-client privilege.A federal judge has ruled that a lawyer for former President Donald Trump must provide additional testimony before a federal grand jury investigating Trump’s handling of classified documents, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. Special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors asked Judge Beryl Howell last month to pierce attorney-client privilege and compel Trump attorney Evan Corcoran to appear before a grand jury, sources previously told ABC News. The Justice Department made the request on the basis of the crime-fraud exception, sources said, which allows for claims of attorney-client privilege…Continue Reading

Important update for customers of Porter Davis (in liquidation)

Following from the Grant Thornton’s, liquidator of Porter Davis, Customer Meeting this morning, there are still many questions left unanswered and we can appreciate that there may be some uncertainty that exists regarding what your rights and obligations are and what you should do next. Our Building team at PCL Lawyers will use tomorrow’s Webinar to address those outstanding questions and set the record straight with regard to some concerning answers. In addition to answering the commonly asked questions regarding including insurance, deposits and contract termination in more detail. Our Webinar will be informative with practical and commercially sound legal…Continue Reading

Emergencies Act: Convoy in ‘full swing’ by invocation, feds say

OTTAWA – The “Freedom Convoy” movement was still in “full swing” the day the Liberal government invoked the Emergencies Act early last year, justifying the extraordinary measures, a federal lawyer said Wednesday during a judicial review of the government’s historic decision. The notion of the protests and blockades across Canada were being brought under control by that point is “little short of revisionist history, or at the very least an interpretation of the state of affairs that benefits from insight bias,” government lawyer John Provart told the Federal court. “The situation was dynamic, continuously unfolding in the days leading up…Continue Reading

Province should pay legal fees from fatality inquiries into Indigenous teen suicides: judge

The Alberta government should pay the legal fees for a small First Nations children’s services agency that appeared at the fatality inquiries into the suicides of four Indigenous teenagers, a judge ruled in a strongly-worded 15-page decision. Fatality inquiries took place last year into the suicides of four Maskwacis teenagers — between the ages of 15 and 19 — each of whom had recent contact with child protection services. Reports have not yet been released into the deaths, which took place between 2017 and 2020. The Akamihk Child and Family Services Society made a court application in hopes the judge…Continue Reading