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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

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bankruptcy, class action, trademark, securities, and tort litigation, to the tune of $50 to $100 billion in investments annually. [10] 23] Such laws are already on the books in Arkansas, Maine, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, some of which limit the amount and type of funding entirely. [24]

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Justices consider next steps in murder case in which prosecution admits error

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But the court denied review last week in a case that sought to invalidate the burden-shifting framework that has long governed employment discrimination cases. Oklahoma , which the court had decided to review and was then in the briefing process. Relisted after the May 30, 2024 and Mar. 7, 2025 conferences.)

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The long conference’s relists

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Sylvia Gonzalez, a newly elected Texas city council member elected on an anti-corruption platform was arrested after her first meeting for “intentionally … conceal[ing] … a government record,” for allegedly taking a petition her supporters had presented to the mayor seeking the removal of a city manager. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

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Whether “bump stocks” are “machineguns,” and a very specific arbitration issue

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Brownback , involving whether the Federal Tort Claims Act’s “judgment bar,” which bars any claim based on the same subject matter as a dismissed FTCA case, applies when both the actions were originally brought together. The government seeks review in Cargill , which it says provides the best vehicle of the three. In Guedes , the U.S.

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Too Clever By Half: Why Public Nuisance is Again at the Heart of a Public Health Debate

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Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the ongoing opioid litigation and an important ruling out of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. ” The Oklahoma Supreme Court last week struck down a $465 million opioid award against Johnson & Johnson based on a legal theory that has previously been tried and failed against guns.

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Are Pro-Life Laws A Human Rights Violation? Roughly 200 Groups Petition the United Nations for Action

JonathanTurley

” The 13 states expressly named are thirteen states: Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma. Georgia is also named for its severe limitation on abortion rights. companies or court will not do so. .”

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University bias-response teams and more Munsingwear vacatur

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Abbott , involving a challenge to the use of nonmutual offensive collateral estoppel to hold that issues resolved in bellwether tort trials bind the defendant in later cases. The government now contends that Munsingwear vacatur is warranted because the case became moot through no fault of its own. 20 in six-time relist E.I.

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