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

Patently O

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?

SCOTUSBlog

But what happens if a party begins to litigate a case, and then seeks to compel arbitration several months later? Sundance , had been filed in Michigan, though the court in that case had limited its scope to Sundance’s Michigan restaurants. In Morgan v.

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“Shall be the Property” is not an Assignment of Patent Rights

Patently O

Dr. Islam is a professor at Michigan (UM). UM did not file any paperwork with the PTO attempting to claim ownership and UM is not a party to the present litigation. Lets look at the contract. by Dennis Crouch. The Federal Circuit has decided an important employment agreement case. Omni MedSci v. Apple (Fed. employment.

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Lawsuit: University of Michigan Professor Harassed Egyptian Researcher with “Racist, Misogynistic” Verbal Attacks

LegalReader

Day reportedly took out the frustration of having a contract canceled on an Egyptian colleague, against whom he vowed revenge. Urology Professor Mark L.

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Forum Selection Clauses, Afghanistan, and the United States

Conflict of Laws

In July 2012, the United States Agency for International Development (“USAID”) contracted with Aircraft Charter Solutions (“ACS”) to perform aircraft flight operations out of Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan. Roughly a year after the RMA-NWTC contract was signed, a dispute arose. NWTC demanded payment. RMA refused.

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StockX Data Privacy Claims Must Be Arbitrated, Says Appeals Court

The Fashion Law

On the heels of a handful of individual class action lawsuits being combined before a federal district court in Michigan, U.S. Writing for the court, Judge Ralph Guy stated, “[W]e conclude that a contract exists and that the delegation provision itself” – which states that “the arbitrator.

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Preliminary Injunction Decision in Chambers of Commerce Case Provides First Insights Into Merits of Medicare Negotiations Cases

FDA Law Blog

The Plaintiffs argued the unconstitutionality of the Medicare Negotiation Program under the Fifth Amendment by relying on Michigan Bell v. at this early juncture in the litigation,” and asked the Plaintiffs to submit an amended complaint to further clarify with any additional factual developments. See Motion at 11. Order at 22.