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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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Biden vaccine policies face Supreme Court test amid nationwide COVID-19 surge

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The vaccine disputes came to the court last month on an emergency basis, a procedural posture in which the justices might have generally been inclined to dispose of them with a brief order without hearing argument. 7 on whether the mandates can remain in place while challenges to their legality continue in the lower courts.

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Court will review legality of Biden’s student-debt relief, but plan remains on hold for now

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Share The Supreme Court will fast-track a challenge to the Biden administration’s student-debt relief program and hear oral argument in February, the court said Thursday. The $400 billion program will remain on hold in the meantime due to lower-court rulings that have blocked the government from implementing it.

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Profile of a potential nominee: Ketanji Brown Jackson

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In the 17 years following her graduation from law school, Jackson held a variety of legal jobs. While much of that experience is typical for a Supreme Court short-lister, one line on Jackson’s resume is not: her mid-career decision to spend two years as a public defender. In Stenberg v.

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Stephen Breyer, pragmatic liberal, will retire at end of term

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Share Justice Stephen Breyer, a devoted pragmatist and the senior member of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing, will retire from the court at the end of the 2021-22 term, NBC News reported on Wednesday. Breyer stressed that because the Nebraska law did not have any exception to protect the health of the mother, it was unconstitutional.

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