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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] 1] He is also an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S.

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Shuttered Legal Analytics Company Gavelytics Is Acquired By Recently Launched Analytics Company Pre/Dicta

LawSites

Last June, the seven-year-old litigation analytics company Gavelytics shut down, seemingly overnight, with founder and CEO Rick Merrill announcing the news by an email on June 29 that he “recently made the difficult decision to close Gavelytics effective June 30,” as I reported at the time. .

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Pharma Companies Reach $665M Opioid Settlement With Native American Tribes

The Crime Report

The nation’s three major drug distributors and Johnson & Johnson have agreed to settle opioid claims for up to $665 million with Native American tribes who have claimed they were harmed by decades of exposure to highly addictive painkillers, reports the Washington Post. . About 15 percent of funds will go toward attorneys’ fees.

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No civil liability for sharing truthful information about matter of public concern.

Day on Torts

Plaintiffs next attempted to rely on a case from Washington to support the assertion that defendant’s distribution of the photos was outrageous. This case is an important read for anyone litigating a tort case involving a matter of public concern. Summary judgment was therefore affirmed.

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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. Yet the torts system has an elaborate and well-functioning system of product liability. In the opioid litigation, the companies were producing a lawful, nondefective product.

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“Nothing Less Than Everything”: The Depp Trial and The Litigation of Mutual Destruction

JonathanTurley

The defense continues to hammer Depp on the fact that he was not actually mentioned in the Washington Post column where Heard claimed that she was an abused spouse. That did not come until years later with the Washington Post column. It is a curious tact since that is not necessary for defamation.

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It’s 5 O’clock Somewhere: Johnny Depp and the ‘Happy Hour’ of Self-Indulgent Litigation

JonathanTurley

Depp must show that Heard’s 2018 Washington Post op-ed , alleging that she was a victim of abuse, defamed him to the tune of $50 million. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. For the record, this is supposed to be a defamation case. Give nothing back.”.