Delaware Litigating Tort 
Patently O
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
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]
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 25, 2025
Konan to determine whether the Federal Tort Claims Act provision exempting claims arising from the loss or miscarriage of letters or postal matter extends to claims that the Post Office deliberately refused to deliver mail to an address. The Supreme Court made short work of two of last weeks first-time relists.
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Fordham Law News
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
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]
Conflict of Laws
OCTOBER 29, 2021
Thus, the general rule of the place of tort applies equally to corporations and private individuals. [1] 1] In similar, the advancing principle of party autonomy [2] does not distinguish between corporations and other litigants on its operational level. L 199) 40 (EC), art 4 (1). [2]
Conflict of Laws
JUNE 29, 2023
Lieberknecht: The Okpabi case — Has Human Rights Litigation in England reached its Zenith In its Okpabi decision, the UK Supreme Court continues the approach it developed in the Vedanta case regarding the liability of parent companies for human rights infringements committed by their subsidiaries.
Conflict of Laws
MAY 12, 2022
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. 8] I look forward to tweeting about it.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 30, 2022
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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