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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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Mbatha v. Cutting: Implications for Litigants of Indian Origin

Conflict of Laws

In determining the applicable law, the Court upheld the traditional approach , which favours lex situs for real property and lex domicilii for personal property. held that the husband had no intention of permanently residing in Nevada and, this, the foreign verdict was unenforceable due to fraud. Narasimha Rao v.

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Ninth Circuit Holds Berkeley’s Gas Ban Preempted by U.S. Energy Policy & Conservation Act

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed down a decision in California Restaurant Association v. The court overturned a District Court ruling to invalidate a Berkeley, California, prohibition on natural gas infrastructure in newly-constructed buildings. O n Monday, April 17, 2023, the U.S. City of Berkeley.

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US Supreme Court takes up case on ATF ghost gun rule

JURIST

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit previously found that the final rule constitutes unlawful agency action because it “flouts clear statutory text and exceeds the legislatively imposed limits on agency authority in the name of public policy.” ” This is not the only litigation in the US over ghost guns.

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They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.

The Crime Report

When agencies refused to turn over public records, ProPublica’s lawyers threatened litigation and in one case sued. Prosecutors in Lyon County, Nevada, once wanted a detective trained by Harpster to testify about the 911 call analysis used against a man accused of shooting his wife.

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Retail Woes: A Running List of Fashion & Retail Bankruptcies

The Fashion Law

In a declaration filed with the courts, chief restructuring officer William Kaye said Charlotte Olympia’s U.S. outposts — consisting of four locations in New York, California, and Nevada — had historically been unprofitable. Through bankruptcy, the brand plans to liquidate inventory and close all stores. The Fiorucci and Edwin Co.,

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Supreme Court denied RFK Jr.’s request for spot on New York ballot

SCOTUSBlog

A New York court ruled last month that Kennedy could not appear on the state’s ballot because the address listed on his nominating petition was a “sham address that he assumed for the purpose of maintaining his voter registration and furthering his own political aspirations in” New York. The post Supreme Court denied RFK Jr.’s

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