Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In that new venue he carefully lays out the story of efforts to prove the innocence of Charlie Vaughan, an illiterate Arkansas prisoner serving a life sentence for a murder to which another man—who said he did not even know Vaughan—confessed. The holes in the investigative slice widen holes in the litigation slice.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Tyrance McCall, a Florida resident, filed suit in Georgia against Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, a Delaware corporation with its headquarters in Ohio, after a 2016 accident in Florida resulted from the alleged failure of a tire that Cooper manufactured in Arkansas. Goertz , 21-442. Issue : Whether the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The court ruled against her and found that the park’s duty was only to “make conditions as safe as they appear to be” and that Munoz “ was aware of the risk she encountered, and expected to be surprised, startled, and scared.” particularly those with ravenous monkeys. Walmart 2001 Ark.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2022

The state court, Sotomayor observed, never addressed Love’s contention that he had been deprived of his constitutional right to an impartial jury. Although that was done in Love’s case, she noted, it doesn’t help “if courts do not even consider claims of racial bias that litigants bring forward.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In the case of Arkansas inmate Mickey Thomas , Sotomayor similarly conceded that “Thomas’ claim does not satisfy this Court’s traditional criteria for granting” review. A three-judge district court ruled that D.C. The district court held that it did not have to consider the lodestar, and a divided U.S.

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