Class Action Watchlist

The lawsuit alleges that people suffered personal injuries from using JUUL branded e-cigarette devices and pods, and it is brought against JUUL Labs Canada, Ltd., JUUL Labs, Inc. and Altria Group, Inc. The claim says the defendants were negligent and failed to warn users, broke provincial consumer protection laws through unfair or deceptive practices, were unjustly enriched, and took part in a conspiracy, and it also claims breach of contract against JUUL Labs Canada, Ltd. as the seller. The plaintiffs seek damages for personal injuries, refunds or restitution, and nominal damages. None of these allegations has been proved in court.

The lawsuits allege that Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides made, marketed, sold, or distributed by Monsanto Canada ULC (now Bayer CropScience Inc.), Monsanto Company, and Bayer Inc. may cause non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of cancer. They claim the companies were negligent in the design, testing, sale, and marketing of these products and failed to warn users of the alleged health risk. The claims also allege the companies manipulated and suppressed scientific discussion about whether glyphosate causes cancer. The defendants deny that their glyphosate-based herbicides cause non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and none of the allegations has been proved in court.

The lawsuit alleges that Air Canada systemically failed to provide the assistance its own tariffs require for passengers who rely on mobility aids such as wheelchairs and walkers, including help boarding and getting off flights, safe transfers between mobility aids and seats, pre-boarding, and careful handling of mobility aids. It claims passengers were denied assistance, moved roughly or by untrained staff, denied pre-boarding, or had their mobility aids damaged, lost or delayed. In the alternative, the claim alleges Air Canada made false or misleading statements about these services and engaged in unfair practices under consumer protection laws in several provinces. These are allegations only, and nothing has been proved in court.

The lawsuit alleges that Equifax Canada Co. and Equifax, Inc. were negligent in setting up and running their cybersecurity systems, leaving known weaknesses unfixed, storing sensitive personal information without encryption, and failing to detect or stop a 2017 data breach that allegedly exposed the personal information of thousands of Canadians. It also alleges Equifax was warned about the problems but chose not to fix them while telling customers and the public that its cybersecurity was strong. The claim further alleges Equifax breached privacy and consumer protection laws and broke contracts with subscribers of its credit monitoring products, including Equifax Complete Advantage, Equifax Complete Premier, and Equifax Complete Friends and Family. None of these allegations has been proved in court.

The lawsuits allege that major consumer health companies, including Johnson & Johnson (now Kenvue), Procter & Gamble, GlaxoSmithKline (now Haleon), Pfizer, and RB Health, along with several large retailers, marketed and sold oral cold and sinus medicines containing phenylephrine as decongestants even though the ingredient does not work when taken by mouth. The claims say the companies knew or should have known this from scientific studies, and point to a September 2023 United States FDA advisory finding that oral phenylephrine is not effective as a nasal decongestant. Named products include versions of Tylenol, Benylin, DayQuil, NyQuil, NeoCitran, Contac, Sudafed PE, Robitussin, Triaminic, Mucinex, and Vicks medicines. These are allegations only, and nothing has been proved in court.

The lawsuit alleges that Google LLC copied and exploited the written copyrighted works of Canadian writers, without licence or permission, to train its generative AI large language models, including LaMDA, PaLM 2, and Gemini. It claims Google obtained the works by crawling the internet and downloading pirate or shadow libraries such as Z-Library, Library Genesis, OceanofPDF, and Scribd, and through datasets like C4, Books1, and Books2. The claim also says Google circumvented technological protection measures on the works, concealed the conduct, and repeats it each time it trains a new model. These are allegations only, and nothing has been proved in court.

The lawsuit alleges that Stability AI Ltd., Midjourney, Inc., Google LLC, and Runway AI, Inc. infringed the copyright and moral rights of Canadian artists by scraping and copying hundreds of millions of copyrighted images, including images linked in the LAION-400M and LAION-5B datasets, to train their commercial AI image generators, including Stable Diffusion, Stable Assistant, Midjourney, Imagen, and Runway. It also claims the image generators reproduce copyrighted works or recognizable parts of them and mimic artists' distinctive styles in response to user prompts, and that the defendants encouraged users to write prompts using artists' names. The plaintiff seeks damages, a portion of the defendants' profits, and court orders stopping the alleged infringement. These are allegations only, and nothing has been proved in court.

The lawsuit alleges that Uber Canada Inc., Uber Technologies, Inc., Uber Holdings Canada Inc., Uber Rasier Canada Inc., and Rasier, LLC failed to protect passengers from sexual assault, sexual misconduct, and other attacks by Uber drivers paired through the Uber App. It claims Uber misrepresented the safety of its rideshare services, including through advertising aimed at women and intoxicated passengers and through a Safe Rides Fee said to fund safety measures, and that its driver screening lacked fingerprinting, interviews, and training. The claim seeks damages and court orders requiring Uber to adopt adequate safety measures. These are allegations only, and nothing has been proved in court.

The lawsuit alleges that Apple's Siri voice assistant, preloaded on devices such as iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, HomePod speakers, AirPods, iMacs and MacBooks, is routinely triggered by accident and records users' private conversations without their knowledge or consent. It claims Apple shared these accidentally recorded conversations with third parties, including contractors and advertisers, as part of a quality improvement program. The claim also says Apple told users and the US Congress that its devices only listen after a clear trigger, and alleges those statements were false. The defendants are Apple Inc. and Apple Canada Inc., and none of these allegations has been proved in court.

The lawsuits allege that Johnson & Johnson and related companies sold talc-based Johnson's Baby Powder without adequately warning users about potential health risks. The claims say that using the powder in the perineal (genital) area over a prolonged period increased users' chances of developing epithelial ovarian cancer. The plaintiffs allege negligence, including failure to warn and negligent testing, design and manufacturing, along with breaches of consumer protection laws and the federal Competition Act, and they seek damages. None of these allegations has been proved in court.

The lawsuits allege that Adobe Inc. and Adobe Systems Canada Inc. enrolled customers in Annual Billed Monthly (ABM) software subscriptions without properly disclosing that the plans are one-year commitments, presenting them instead as monthly plans. They claim Adobe hid key terms such as automatic renewal and an early termination fee of half the fees remaining in the subscription year, and deliberately made cancelling difficult through a complex, obstructive process. The claims say this conduct breaks consumer protection and competition laws. These are allegations only, and nothing has been proved in court.

The lawsuit alleges that 9227-8712 Québec inc., a maple syrup producer operating in Quebec, sold cans of maple syrup labelled as "pure" and "from Quebec" that were actually diluted with cane sugar or sourced in whole or in part from outside Quebec. It also alleges that grocery companies Metro Inc., Sobeys Group Inc., Groupe Épicia Inc. and Loblaw Companies Limited distributed or sold this syrup in their stores. The plaintiff seeks cancellation of the sales, refunds, compensatory damages and punitive damages. These are allegations only, and nothing has been proved in court.