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

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1] He is also an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. ten years ago—at least in part due to longstanding common law rules on champerty, maintenance, [3] and patent law’s relative high risk—today third-party litigation funding (TPLF) [4] undergirds about 30% of all patent litigation, by conservative estimates. [5]

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

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At its last conference, it granted review of a one-time relist asking whether federal courts must follow state law requiring medical malpractice claims to be supported by an expert affidavit. Oklahoma , which the court had decided to review and was then in the briefing process. New Relists Escobar v. Relisted after the Jan.

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The long conference’s relists

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Ferguson involves a First Amendment challenge to Washington state’s law prohibiting “conversion therapy,” the practice of seeking to change a gay or transgender person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling. A federal district court in North Carolina ultimately invalidated much of the law, and the U.S.

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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 Supreme Court did not grant review in any new cases since our last installment. ” (relisted after the Sept.

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Oklahoma Man Shots Unarmed Woman in the Back After She Tears Down His Nazi Flag

JonathanTurley

There is a no stand-your-ground case out of Oklahoma where Alexander Feaster, 46 is claiming that he shot Kyndal McVey, 27, in the back while she ran away as an act of self-defense. They argue that his Nazi flags are protected First Amendment speech and that he had a right to defend himself under the law.

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

JonathanTurley

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

Roughly 200 human rights organizations are asking the United Nations to declare that the United States is a violator of “international human rights law” because some states have passed pro-life laws after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. … We Americans have a method for making the laws that are over us.

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