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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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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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International arbitration, McGirt retroactivity, and anti-discrimination laws

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Oklahoma should apply retroactively, and whether the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act violates a website designer’s First Amendment rights. The contract provided for resolution by the rules of the German Institution of Arbitration. As reported on SCOTUSblog, Oklahoma has asked the justices to consider revisiting and overruling McGirt.

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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. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit holds that courts make that decision, the U.S.

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Are Alaska Native corporations Indian tribes? A multimillion-dollar question

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Oklahoma last term, the court confronted the complex past of Oklahoma’s Native nations, Chehalis turns on the unique legal history of Alaskan Natives. Today, the regional ANCs in particular are among the most important companies in Alaska, with billions in revenue from energy development, tourism and government contracting.

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Corporate Compliance

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These states include Alabama, Alaska, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Washington. Termination of contract. . Termination of contract. Prevent and minimize potential workplace litigation. . Due dates and fees vary based on your local government bodies. . Confidentiality.

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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. The court also granted review in four-time relist National Rifle Association of America v. 27 and Nov.

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