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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

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bankruptcy, class action, trademark, securities, and tort litigation, to the tune of $50 to $100 billion in investments annually. [10] That’s because current disclosure of litigation funding relies on a patchwork of state law, court rules, self-reporting, FOIA requests, leaks to journalists, and funding pitches.

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This week’s relists: preemption of consumer protection laws, bankruptcy claims, COVID mandates and. Chevron deference again?

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Respondents William Kivett and Bernard and Lisa Bravo filed a class action (which the district court later certified) against mortgage lender Flagstar for not paying interest on their escrow accounts.

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University bias-response teams and more Munsingwear vacatur

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court is still slowly making inroads on the still-sizable number of lingering relists from the end-of-summer “long conference.” The court finally denied review on Nov. 20 in six-time relist E.I.

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Whether “bump stocks” are “machineguns,” and a very specific arbitration issue

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court did not grant review in any new cases since our last installment. The court did, however, deny review in one case that had been relisted three times – King v. Court of Appeals for the D.C.

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