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

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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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Court will review legality of Biden’s student-debt relief, but plan remains on hold for now

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Share The Supreme Court will fast-track a challenge to the Biden administration’s student-debt relief program and hear oral argument in February, the court said Thursday. The $400 billion program will remain on hold in the meantime due to lower-court rulings that have blocked the government from implementing it.

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Justice Sotomayor References Rarely Used Procedure: Circuit Certification to U.S. Supreme Court

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Certification to a State Supreme Court, this Blog has noted , is a procedure the Sixth Circuit knows well. See In re Nat’l Prescription Opiate Litig. , Nebraska , without a standing quandary or this term’s Acheson Hotels v. That case arose in the crosshairs of a complex and changing area of criminal law. 4th 455 (6th Cir.

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Profile of a potential nominee: Ketanji Brown Jackson

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Her father then went to law school, eventually becoming the chief attorney for the Miami-Dade County School Board. She went on to Harvard College, from which she graduated magna cum laude in 1992, and Harvard Law School, graduating cum laude in 1996. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit by President Ronald Reagan, from 1997 to 1998.

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Biden vaccine policies face Supreme Court test amid nationwide COVID-19 surge

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The earlier cases in which the court took that unusual step involved Texas’ restrictive anti-abortion law and a religious-liberty claim from a man on death row.). A federal district court in Missouri put the rule on hold for 10 states, while a federal district court in Louisiana did the same for 14 other states.

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Stephen Breyer, pragmatic liberal, will retire at end of term

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Breyer’s penchant for pragmatism was on full display in his 2014 opinion for the court in National Labor Relations Board v. “A Perhaps because of his straightforward style, Breyer was the author of three landmark decisions striking down state laws that sought to restrict access to abortion. A frequent author on reproductive rights.

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