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]

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Litigation Litigating Court Finance 126

JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Nebraska (1925), the Court struck down a state law prohibiting instruction in German. American torts have long required consent in torts. This right of consent is ongoing and can be exercised at any point in the litigation. Indeed, in Meyer v. Informed Consent.

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Legal Legal Education Tort 57

JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In celebration of Thanksgiving, I give you our annual Turkey Torts of civil and criminal cases that add liability to libations on this special day (with past cases at the bottom). Indeed, the torts and crimes recorded this year seem painfully reminiscent of this loathsome year. The result is a horn of plenty for litigators.

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