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How is Compensation Determined in a Car Accident Lawsuit in West Virginia?

LegalReader

The victim’s attorney can also argue for less tangible damages that are tied to things like physical pain, mental suffering, and trauma associated with a collision.

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West Virginia Becomes Ground Zero in Fight for Opioid Accountability

The Crime Report

Lawyers for Huntington, W.V., The companies also plan to argue West Virginia has been heavily affected by illegal opioids, like heroin and synthetic fentanyl, that have nothing to do with their business. AmerisourceBergen Corp. and Cardinal Health Inc.

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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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Self-Help Information by the Courts in 2021

CourtTechBulletin

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? From there is a link to their courthelp web page ( [link] ) that "can help you when you don't have a lawyer". We share what we found below. There is a lot of information there.

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Kafka in America: When Judges Don’t Know the Law

The Crime Report

Since most poor litigants are unrepresented in civil legal cases, this sets up an almost Kafka-esque scene in courtrooms across the country,” they wrote. Right off the bat, this sets up litigants for an uphill struggle, the researchers explain. Another still from Orson Well’s “The Trial” film of Kafka’s novel.

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February oral argument scheduled for stay applications in “good neighbor” pollution rule challenges

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument in February on whether to freeze a plan created by the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce ozone levels across the United States while litigation over the plan continues in a federal appeals court. Three states – Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia – went to D.C.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S. Pritzker , Nos.