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Arbitration clauses, prejudicial delays, and one justice’s contract-law “nightmare”

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This case began when Robyn Morgan filed in Iowa federal court a wage-and-hour complaint on behalf of herself and similarly situated employees against Sundance, Inc., Section 2 directs that arbitration contracts are enforceable in federal court, except “upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.”

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

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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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Is turnabout fair play under the Federal Arbitration Act?

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But what happens if a party begins to litigate a case, and then seeks to compel arbitration several months later? Robyn Morgan worked at a Sundance-owned Taco Bell in Iowa in 2015, and the application that she used to apply for her job contained an arbitration clause. In Morgan v.

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The court appears likely to preserve theory of liability in False Claims Act cases

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The Department of Justice has used the FCA to recover more than $70 billion since 1986, largely in cases related to health care and defense contracting. The whistleblower was backed not only by the government but by a “friend of the court” brief from Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) , the FCA’s long-time champion.

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Brnovich, election-law tradeoffs, and the limited role of the courts

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Muller is the Bouma fellow in law and professor of law at the University of Iowa College of Law. It marks a major victory for states that seek to innovate or tinker with their election laws — to expand them or to contract them. Litigants then moved to Section 2. Democratic National Committee. 1, the “ For the People Act ”).

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Guest Post: The Caselaw Access Project — Then, Now, Tomorrow

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We’d all been working for over a year on a contract that would make it possible, someday in the future, for everyone to have free and open access to all the official court decisions ever published in the United States. The contract still took a couple more months to finalize. Privately they said the same thing.

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Michigan’s Updated PURPA Implementation Could Create a New Market for Privately-owned Solar Energy Facilities

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Third, the orders set term length requirements for PURPA contracts with utilities for facilities with a design capacity of two megawatts or less. 20 Year PURPA Contract Term Length. 6] These term lengths are similar to other states too, such as Oregon and Wyoming, which also have 20-year terms for PURPA contracts. [7].