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CaLex Legal inc. has filed yesterday, on behalf of one of our clients, in collaboration with Investigation Counsel PC and Bates Barristers PC, two firms from Toronto, an application for authorization to institute a class action and to obtain the status of representative against the Fédération des Caisses Desjardins du Québec, Desjardins Trust inc. and Desjardins Investments inc.

The class is composed of, among others, the holders of the following Desjardins financial products:

(i) Melodia Moderate Growth Portfolio (ii) Melodia Diversified Growth Portfolio (iii) Melodia Balanced Growth Portfolio (iv) Melodia Aggressive Growth Portfolio (v) Melodia Maximum Growth Portfolio (vi) Melodia Very Conservative Income Portfolio (vii) Melodia Conservative Income Portfolio (viii) Melodia Moderate Income Portfolio (ix) Melodia Diversified Income Portfolio (x) Chorus II Conservative Portfolio (xi) Chorus II Balanced Income Portfolio (xii) Chorus II Balanced Growth Portfolio (xiii) Chorus II Growth Portfolio (xiv) Chorus II High Growth Portfolio (xv) Chorus II Dynamic Growth Portfolio (xvi) Chorus II Aggressive Growth Portfolio (xvii) Chorus II Maximum Growth Portfolio

The class action, if authorized by the Court, will seek the restitution to the investors of the management and transaction fees overpaid by Desjardins Trust inc. since 2005, in addition to material and punitive damages.

We invite the persons who may be concerned to contact us via the Class Action tab on our website.

CaLex Légal inc. has filed, today, a request for authorization to institute a class action against Google LLC, concerning the extraction by the latter of biometric data of individuals from photos stored on the Google Photos platform. The class action seeks compensation for all individuals whose biometric data was extracted, collected, captured, received or obtained by Google from photos stored by users on the Google Photos platform.

We invite the persons who may be concerned to contact us via the Class Action tab on our website.

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The application for authorization to institute a class action was authorized by the Honourable Justice Sylvain Lussier of the Superior Court of Québec.

Calex Légal just filed a Demande pour autorisation d'exercer une action collection et pour se voir attribuer le statut de représentant against Facebook Inc. et Facebook Canada Ltd.  concerning their civil liability arising from the publication of illicit content on their platforms (page "Dis son nom", pages "Victims Voices" et pages of the same nature). We invite people who may be concerned to contact us.

We are happy to announce that Me Sarah-Jade Ratelle has just joined Calex Legal. As a part of the corporate law team Sarah-Jade focuses her practice on mergers & acquisitions and corporate restructurings.