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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] 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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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court denied cert on Monday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, filed an opinion dissenting from the court’s denial of summary vacatur.

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Don’t Look Back: Why the Innocent Sometimes Stay in Prison

The Crime Report

The hazard—a wrongful conviction, for example—has to pass through a police screen, a forensics screen, a prosecution screen, a grand jury screen, a defense screen, a jury screen and, ultimately, appellate court and collateral review screens, before it takes final effect.

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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

On June 15, 2023, the court issued the ultimate judgment not only on the torts claims but perhaps the state of our politics. He ruled for both the claim of the Plaintiff and the counterclaim of the Defendant and denied any damages to either party. _ Again, the court agreed. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v. Six Flags St.

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Court declines to hear death-row inmate’s claim of juror’s racial bias, prompting dissent from liberal justices

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning issued orders from the justices’ private conference last Thursday. Love came to the Supreme Court last summer, asking the justices to decide whether allowing Niesman to sit on the jury even after Love’s attorney had challenged him violated Love’s constitutional rights.

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Court issues orders from “long conference,” but relists some high-profile cases

SCOTUSBlog

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and C.H. Two members of the court’s liberal wing, Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, penned opinions regarding the court’s decision not to take up the cases of two death-row inmates. A three-judge district court ruled that D.C. Personalweb Technologies v.

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