This week, the Ninth Circuit addresses whether text messages can violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s prohibition on “prerecorded voice” messages, and it considers whether debtors who paid statutory fees under an unconstitutionally nonuniform bankruptcy provision are entitled to a refund.
USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Telecoms, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Telephone Consumer Protection Act 1991 (USA)
On 9 April 2018 Linc Energy Ltd (in liquidation) was convicted of causing serious environmental harm at its pilot underground coal gasification facility near Chinchilla, Queensland.
Administrators were appointed to the company on 15 April 2016. On 23 May they were appointed liquidators after creditors resolved that the company be wound up.
Australia, Queensland, Environment & Climate Change, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Projects & Procurement, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Corporations Act 2001 (Australia)