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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] 5] Insurance options are suddenly plentiful, [6] funders are expanding and multiplying, [7] and new deal commitments are on the rise. [8] Guest post by Jonathan Stroud.

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Invention of a Slave: 2021 Redux

Patently O

20-1396 (Supreme Court 2021). Walter Tormasi is a prisoner in the New Jersey state prison system. Rather than reaching the merits, the district court dismissed the case on procedural grounds. The district court ruled that Tormasi lacked the capacity to sue and the Federal Circuit then affirmed. Does Lewis v.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. New Jersey Appellate Court Affirmed State Authority to Take Easements for Coastal Protection Projects.

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Retail Woes: A Running List of Fashion & Retail Bankruptcies

The Fashion Law

NOW: PacSun restructured and emerged from bankruptcy in September, under new ownership of Golden Gate Capital. Under pressure from a fiercely competitive market and the rise of e-commerce, New Jersey-based women’s apparel retailer Joyce Leslie Inc. The brand has seen a boost in online sales. January 2016 – Joyce Leslie.

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Court Rules NJ Police Must Release Disciplinary Records

The Crime Report

Public officials must release police disciplinary records in New Jersey when the public’s interest in them outweighs an officer’s confidentiality concerns, the state’s top court has ruled. We will have to keep litigating because police departments are so secretive.

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Lawyers Should More Often Talk About Their Failures

Above The Law

Shortly after graduating from law school, I worked at a Biglaw shop performing mostly grunt work for some huge litigation matters. The appeal was prosecuted by one of the top lawyers in the country, and this impressive litigator was not able to save the case from being decided against our client.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2021

SCOTUSBlog

Share The first Black woman to clerk on the Supreme Court. Two trailblazing civil-rights litigators. As we did last year , SCOTUSblog looks back and remembers some of the people who died this year and whose lives and work brought them to the highest court in the nation. Huron’s impact extended beyond his work as a litigator.

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