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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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Before his death, decedent filed suit for personal injury and loss of consortium in West Virginia. The Court explained: Here, Decedent brought suit in West Virginia for personal injury and loss of consortium. Decedent himself ultimately accepted a settlement in lieu of further litigation.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Abbott , in which the chemical company had asked them to decide whether a multidistrict litigation can be bound by the results of “bellwether” trials, which are conducted as test cases to give both sides a better idea of how they might fare and to shape a potential settlement. du Pont de Nemours v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. A tort action for intentional infliction of emotional distress is likely to fail. The next scary moment is likely to be in the form of a torts complaint.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

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.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v.

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