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Opioid manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals announces $4.35B settlement with state, local governments

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State and local governments with lawsuits against Teva—excluding New York, which is pursuing separate litigation—are all potentially party to the settlement Teva announced Tuesday. The states are led by Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller. In the settlement, Teva agreed to pay $4.25 billion in cash over 13 years.

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US appeals court upholds preliminary injunction preventing enforcement of Texas immigration law SB4 pending litigation

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A three-judge panel of the Fifth District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a controversial Texas law, Senate Bill (SB) 4 , will remain on hold as litigation continues. SB4, the controversial Texas law that is the subject of this continued litigation, was originally signed into law in December 2023.

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

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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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US book publishers sue Florida Department of Education over library restrictions

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Across the US, litigation has commenced against sexual content bans in Iowa , Texas , and Arkansas with varying outcomes. We all lose out when authors’ truths are censored. This Florida lawsuit is not the first constitutional challenge raised against state education departments for censorship.

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Two Iowa Colleges Sued Over Tuition Costs During COVID-19 Pandemic

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A student attending Wartburg College filed a class-action lawsuit over the cost of tuition after “losing on-campus educational time and in-person resources amid the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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Law School Canons: You can’t always “have it your way!”

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ISE is an Iowa LLC with its principal place of business in Coralville, Iowa (in the Northern District of Iowa). Factor 1 – the burden on the defendant: PerDiemCo argued that litigating anywhere other than the Eastern District of Texas would impose an undue burden. and litigating patents away from D.C. Trimble, Inc.

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Wrongful Death Suit Filed Against Iowa Pig Farmer Over Wife’s Murder

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The family of late Amy Lynn Mullis is suing Todd Mullis, her husband, in a wrongful death lawsuit.