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Pennsylvania Woman Killed By Roommate’s Three Pit Bulls

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We have previously discussed animal liability in torts. If litigated, the state’s nuanced dog liability laws would come into effect. It is often said the every dog gets one free bite in American torts. She was watching the dogs for her roommate. The dogs were later euthanized with the consent of the roommate.

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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] 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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Rep. Nunes Wins Major Victory In Defamation Case Against Ryan Lizza and Hearst

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For torts scholars, it has been a bonanza of interesting issues touching on every element of defamation law. Nunes will be allowed to litigate his claim that Lizza defamed him by claiming that he secretly moved his farm from California to Iowa and linked the move to the alleged use of undocumented labor.

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June 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. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S.

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