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Petitions of the week: Four petitions that test the limits on lawsuits against the government

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However, in 1908’s Ex parte Young , the Supreme Court allowed suits against state officials, in lieu of states themselves, for violations of federal law. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor v. Murphy involves New Jersey and New York’s Waterfront Commission Compact. In 1978’s Monell v. Finally, Doe v.

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

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1] He is also an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. ten years ago—at least in part due to longstanding common law rules on champerty, maintenance, [3] and patent law’s relative high risk—today third-party litigation funding (TPLF) [4] undergirds about 30% of all patent litigation, by conservative estimates. [5]

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February 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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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. Colorado Court Ruled on Venue for Colorado Local Governments’ Climate Change Claims. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati . Wikimedia Commons.