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

Patently O

ten years ago—at least in part due to longstanding common law rules on champerty, maintenance, [3] and patent law’s relative high risk—today third-party litigation funding (TPLF) [4] undergirds about 30% of all patent litigation, by conservative estimates. [5] Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2] 8, 2022). [30]

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 4/2023: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

The Court answered this question in the affirmative. More importantly, the court considered the requirement of a “real connecting link” in the context of Art. While the decision is formally a procedural one, its most striking passages address substantive tort law. 7(1) of the Brussels Ibis Regulation.

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Justices put Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan on hold

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday put a bankruptcy plan for Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of the highly addictive opioid painkiller OxyContin, on hold while it reviews a challenge to the legality of the plan, which would shield the Sackler family, the owners of the drug company, from lawsuits. There were no recorded dissents.

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

The court denied, however, Connecticut’s motion for costs and fees, noting that several issues raised by Exxon were novel in the Second Circuit and that many relevant portions of district court rulings in other circuits had not been subject to appellate review until the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Baltimore case.

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