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Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to Reuters: Apple has started legal proceedings against Russia’s anti-monopoly regulator in a dispute concerning alternative payment options on its App Store platform. Russia opened an antitrust case against Apple in late October, accusing it of failing to allow app developers to tell customers about alternative payment options when using the App Store. It said Apple could face a fine, based on its revenue in […]

Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to Reuters: The local unit of Japanese automakers, Mazda Motor Corp that misled customers over their rights, has been found by an Australian federal court. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in October 2019 filed a lawsuit involving 10 customers against Mazda Australia, which was accepted by an Australian federal court. According to Australian Consumer Law, if a vehicle cannot be repaired within a

Karimi and Associates Law Firm presents according to Time: Following reports of Instagram violations that have harmful effects on children and teenagers, 8 state Attorneys General coalition has started a bipartisan investigation into Instagram’s harmful effects on kids. The group of attorneys is investigating whether Meta (Facebook) is violating state consumer protection law by putting the public at risk or not. Meta is the mother company of Instagram and investigators believe that

Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to Jurist: The US Supreme Court rejected two appeals from Volkswagen AG, the German automobile manufacturer, regarding emissions tampering. The justices sought the views of the federal government, and, after review, turned down both cases raised by Volkswagen. Volkswagen claimed in both of the appeals that the Clean Air Act provides protection for automobile manufacturers from state and local liability over updating vehicle emission testing

 Karimi & Associates Law Firm represents, according to Reuters: One of NFT or non-fungible tokens marketplace platforms suspends NFT transactions due to rampant fakes and plagiarism after selling  NFT of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet for $2.9 million. The founder of this platform called this a “fundamental problem” in the digital asset market. With the day-to-day growing NFT Market, some reports of counterfeits and wash trading have become commonplace. After selling Dorsey’s

Karimi & Associates Law Firm represents, according to Jurist: Washington State Attorney General, Bob Ferguson, announced that Amazon will pay $2.25 million to his office and shut down its “Sold by Amazon” third-party seller program after a lengthy price-fixing investigation by his office’s Antitrust Division. Ferguson’s lawsuit alleged that Amazon violated antitrust laws and “unreasonably restrained competition in order to maximize its own profits off third-party sales” by agreeing on prices

Karimi & Associates Law Firm represents, according to Jurist: The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a Nigerian rights group, has filed a lawsuit against the President at the Federal High Court (Lagos) over the government’s failure to publish a copy of the agreement recently signed between the federal government and social media giant Twitter. The rights group joined the country’s minister of information and culture as a respondent in the

TEHRAN, Sep. 15 (MNA) – Iran’s deputy economy minister said, within a 10-billion-dollar contract, China has allocated Lines of Credit (LOCs) to five Iranian banks. Mohammad Khazaei made the remarks while speaking at the MoU-signing ceremony for a ten-billion-dollar LOC contract between CITIC Group Corporation Ltd. of China and five Iranian banks. “The deal marks the first major contract signed with China in the era after the Joint Comprehensive Plan

TEHRAN, Sep. 20 (MNA) – At a ceremony in London, the biggest post-JCPOA contract of Iran and Britain was signed to boost Iran’s solar energy capacity by 600 MW. One day after anti-Iranian remarks of President Trump of US, a ceremony was hold in London where the Iranian Ambassador to the UK, Hamid Baiedinejad, and Alex Chisholm, the British Permanent Secretary for BEIS (the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial

Iraq’s Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaibi said an agreement will be signed with Iran soon to jointly invest in two oilfields shared by the two countries. Luaibi did not specify the fields and when the agreement would be signed. Nevertheless, it would be a groundbreaking move in the history of economic cooperation between two important oil heavyweights in the region, Press TV reported. In August, Iraq’s Ambassador to Iran Rajih al-Mussawi