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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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Federal jurisdiction and the constitutionality of eviction moratoriums

SCOTUSBlog

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court made short work of two of last weeks first-time relists. The court granted review in United States Postal Service v. The district court agreed and dismissed Whole Foods with prejudice.

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The Texas Two-Step and Big Pharma

Fordham Law News

They all used bankruptcy to try to get out of mass tort claims. [1] 7] The first step is to create a new corporation, usually in a business friendly state like Texas or Delaware. [8] 8] The second step is to then transfer the tort liabilities into the new corporations. [9] 4] This strategy is known as the Texas two-step. [5]

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

Conflict of Laws

This also applies to the extended possibility of choice of court agreements, for which it is still unclear whether exclusive prorogation is possible beyond the cases named in Article 10 section 4 of the Brussels II ter Regulation. The Federal Supreme Court requested a ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court on this issue in November 2018.

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Which law governs disputes involving corporations?

Conflict of Laws

A review of the case law suggests a strong tendency of the courts to apply the same choice-of-law rules applicable to private individuals. Thus, the general rule of the place of tort applies equally to corporations and private individuals. [1] These are the situations involving claims between the corporate actors (i.e.

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Conflict of Laws of Freedom of Speech on Elon Musk’s Twitter

Conflict of Laws

Twitter, Inc is incorporated in Delaware, and has various subsidiaries around the world; Twitter International Company , for example, is incorporated in Ireland and responsible as data controller for users that live outside of the United States. ‘Twitter’ is not a monolithic entity.

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President Bites Agent: Book Claims Biden Insisted Secret Service Lied About Dog Bites

JonathanTurley

Indeed, the controversy raises some of the issues litigated during the Clinton Administration over the status of Secret Service agents. The “one free bite rule” is a commonly misunderstood torts doctrine — suggesting that you are not subject to strict liability until after the first time your dog bites someone.

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