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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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Mandatory minimums, payday lending, and voting rights in first session of Supreme Court term

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Laufer told the justices that she had voluntarily dismissed her case in the district court after Tristan Gillespie, an attorney who has represented her in other ADA cases, was disciplined by a federal court in Maryland. The case has drawn widespread interest.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. The Second Circuit also distinguished the Connecticut program from a Maryland regulatory scheme that the U.S.

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Funding for Native healthcare programs, and the Armed Career Criminal Act returns

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To promote tribal self-governance, Congress allows tribes to contract with the Indian Health Service to oversee these programs themselves. The program also provides for the agency to pay the tribe “contract support costs” that the tribe uses to run the program, because it lacks the existing bureaucracy to operate the program.

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

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Suski , 23-3 Issue : Whether, where parties enter into an arbitration agreement with a delegation clause, an arbitrator or a court should decide whether that arbitration agreement is narrowed by a later contract that is silent as to arbitration and delegation. Maryland and Napue v. relisted after the Oct. 27 conference) Garland v.

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Using expert testimony to prove a criminal defendant’s knowledge of drug trafficking

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Suski , involving whether a court or an arbitrator should decide whether an arbitration agreement that generally delegates the arbitrability question to the arbitrator is narrowed by a later contract that does not address arbitration. Maryland and Napue v. relisted after the Sept. 27 and Nov. 3 conferences) Payne v.

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University bias-response teams and more Munsingwear vacatur

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Justice Clarence Thomas wrote an opinion dissenting from the denial of certiorari , arguing that it “seems illogical and unfair” to relax the common-law requirement that collateral estoppel bind litigants in later litigation only when both parties are the same. Remarkably, six petitions still remain from the long conference.

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