Legal Proceedings
−Removed: are subject to the legal proceedings and claims discussed below as well as certain other legal proceedings and claims that have
−Removed: not been fully resolved and that have arisen in the ordinary course of business.
−Removed: Please refer to Item 3, “Legal Proceedings,”
−Removed: in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended February 28, 2018 for a description.
−Removed: Our management evaluates our exposure
−Removed: to these claims and proceedings individually and in the aggregate and evaluates potential losses on such litigation if the amount
−Removed: of the loss is estimable and the loss is probable.
−Removed: However, the outcome of legal proceedings and claims brought against the Company
−Removed: is subject to significant uncertainty.
−Removed: Although management considers the likelihood of such an outcome to be remote, if one or
−Removed: more of these legal matters were resolved against the Company for amounts in excess of management’s expectations, the Company’s
−Removed: consolidated financial statements for that reporting period could be materially adversely affected.
−Removed: The Company settled certain
−Removed: matters subsequent to year end that did not individually or in the aggregate have a material impact on the Company’s financial
−Removed: condition or operating results.
−Removed: 2016, the Company and the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Melvin Gagerman, became two of several defendants named in
−Removed: a lawsuit filed by two secured creditors demanding repayment of loans totaling $125,000 plus accrued interest and exemplary damages.
−Removed: In January 2017, the Company entered into an agreement with all secured creditors other than the two plaintiffs.
−Removed: That agreement,
−Removed: among other provisions, waived all past events of default.
−Removed: In October 2017 the court dismissed the plaintiffs’
−Removed: exemplary damages, leaving only contract claims.
−Removed: In August 2018, the plaintiffs were awarded approximately$240,000 at trial.
−Removed: Company intends to appeal this award.
−Removed: April 2018, the Company filed suit against its former counsel, Kilpatrick Townsend &Stockton LLP relating to various acts
−Removed: of malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty committed by the firm in connection with its representation of Aura.
−Removed: In June 2018,
−Removed: Kilpatrick Townsend &Stockton LLP filed a cross-complaint against the Company claiming approximately $400,000 in allegedly
−Removed: unpaid legal fees.
−Removed: The Company believes that it has valid defenses to these claims and intends to vigorously defend against these
−Removed: addition to the other information set forth in this report, you should carefully consider the risk factors disclosed in Item 1A,
−Removed: “Risk Factors,”
−Removed: of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended February 28, 2018.
+Added: We are subject to the legal proceedings
+Added: and claims discussed below as well as certain other legal proceedings and claims that have not been fully resolved and that have
+Added: arisen in the ordinary course of business.
+Added: Our management evaluates our exposure to these claims and proceedings individually and
+Added: in the aggregate and evaluates potential losses on such litigation if the amount of the loss is estimable and the loss is probable.
+Added: However, the outcome of legal proceedings and claims brought against the Company is subject to significant uncertainty.
+Added: management considers the likelihood of such an outcome to be remote, if one or more of these legal matters were resolved against
+Added: the Company for amounts in excess of management’s expectations, the Company’s consolidated financial statements for
+Added: that reporting period could be materially adversely affected.
+Added: The Company settled certain matters subsequent to year end that did
+Added: not individually or in the aggregate have a material impact on the Company’s financial condition or operating results.
+Added: In 2017, the Company’s former COO
+Added: was awarded approximately $238,000 in accrued salary and related charges by the California labor board.
+Added: The Company believes that
+Added: this award does not reflect the amount owed which is significantly lower and is exploring all its options and available remedies
+Added: and is working toward an offer to settle this matter.
+Added: In 2016, the Company and the Company’s
+Added: former Chief Executive Officer, Melvin Gagerman, were named among several other defendants in a lawsuit filed by two secured creditors
+Added: demanding repayment of loans totaling $125,000 plus accrued interest and exemplary damages.
+Added: In January 2017, the Company entered
+Added: into an agreement with all secured creditors other than the two plaintiffs.
+Added: In September 2018 the court entered a judgment of approximately
+Added: $235,000 in favor of the two secured creditors.
+Added: The Company subsequently appealed this judgment and, in September 2019, reached
+Added: a settlement agreement with these creditors.
+Added: The Company is presently engaged in a dispute
+Added: with one of its former directors, Robert Kopple, relating to approximately $10 million and approximately 3.15 million warrants
+Added: Kopple claims to be owed to him and his affiliates by the Company.
+Added: In July 2017, Mr.
+Added: Kopple filed suit against the Company
+Added: as well as against current director Mr.
+Added: Diaz-Verson and former directors Mr.
+Added: Breslow and Mr.
+Added: Howsmon, as well as Mr.
+Added: the former CEO (not a director) in connection with these allegations.
+Added: In 2018, the Court sustained demurrers by Mr.
+Added: Howsmon and Mr.
+Added: Gagerman and as a result of these successful demurrers, all four of these defendants have been
+Added: dismissed from the suit.
+Added: While the Company believes that it has certain valid defenses in these matters, the Company is currently
+Added: in settlement discussions with Mr.
+Added: If the settlement negotiation is unsuccessful, the Company intends to vigorously defend
+Added: against these claims.
+Added: See “Liquidity and Capital Resources”
+Added: in “Item 2.
+Added: Management’s Discussion and Analysis
+Added: of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”
+Added: included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for additional
+Added: information regarding the transactions under dispute with Mr.
+Added: In April 2018, the Company filed suit against
+Added: its former counsel, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP alleging various acts of malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty committed
+Added: by the firm in connection with its representation of Aura.
+Added: In June 2018, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP filed a cross-complaint
+Added: against the Company claiming in excess of $400,000 in allegedly unpaid legal fees.
+Added: In January 2019, the Company reached a settlement
+Added: with Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, pursuant to which, among other things, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP agreed
+Added: to dismiss its cross-complaint and waive all unpaid legal fees.
+Added: The action and the cross-complaint were both subsequently dismissed.
+Added: In February 2018, the Company failed to
+Added: issue shares of stock contractually owed toBetterSea, LLC.
+Added: On August 15, 2018, 7,364,735 restricted shares were issued in fulfillment
+Added: of this contractual obligation based on the then-outstanding closing quote of the stock.
+Added: The issuance of the shares was previously
+Added: reported by the Company.
+Added: The Company also paid $20,000 in legal fees related to legal expense associated with the Company’s
+Added: delays in the issuance of the stock.
+Added: In May 2018, Shelley Scholnick dba JB Transporters
+Added: brought suit against the Company claiming ongoing fees in excess of $52,000 owed for the storage of the Company’s property.
+Added: Notably, in June 2017, the Company had brought suit against J.B.
+Added: Moving & Delivery, a business operated and controlled by Scholnick’s
+Added: relative, Jacob Binstok, for damages suffered by the Company as a result of the defendant’s improper storage of the Company’s
+Added: property and improper refusal to return such property.
+Added: In 2018, the Company successfully received a judgment against J.B.
+Added: & Delivery in the amount of approximately $114,000.
+Added: The Company disputes that any amount is now owed to Scholnick.
+Added: 2019, various stockholders of the Company controlling a combined total of more than 27.5 million shares delivered a signed
+Added: written consent to the Company removing Ronald Buschur as a member of the Company’s Board and electing Cipora Lavut as
+Added: a director of the Company.
+Added: On March 27, 2019, those same stockholders delivered a further signed written consent to the
+Added: Company removing William Anderson and Si Ryong Yu as members of the Company’s Board and electing Robert Lempert and
+Added: David Mann as directors of the Company.
+Added: These written consents represented a majority of the outstanding shares of the
+Added: Company’s common stock as of March 26, 2019 and March 27, 2019, respectively.
+Added: Because of Aura’s refusal
+Added: to recognize the legal effectiveness of the consents, on April 8, 2019 the stockholders filed suit in the Court of
+Added: Chancery of the State of Delaware pursuant to Section 225 of the Delaware General Corporations Law, seeking an order
+Added: confirming the validity of the consents and declaring that Aura’s Board consists of Ms.
+Added: Douglas and Mr.
+Added: Diaz-Versón, Jr.
+Added: On July 8, 2019 the Court of Chancery entered
+Added: final judgment in favor of the stockholder plaintiffs, confirming that (a) Ronald Buschur, Si Ryong Yu and William Anderson
+Added: had been validly removed by the holders of a majority of the Company’s outstanding stock acting by written consent (b)
+Added: Lempert had been validly elected by the holders of a majority of the Company’s outstanding
+Added: stock acting by written consent, and (c) the Company’s Board of Directors validly consists of Cipora Lavut, David Mann,
+Added: Robert Lempert, Gary Douglas and Salvador Diaz-Versón, Jr.
+Added: In addition to the other information set
+Added: forth in this report, you should carefully consider the risk factors disclosed in Item 1A, “Risk Factors,”
+Added: of the Company’s
+Added: Annual Report on Form 10-K issued on June 13, 2019 and the Amended Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended February 28,
+Added: 2019, issued on October 24, 2019.
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