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Wisconsin governor seeks sanctions against former Trump lawyer over election fraud lawsuit

JURIST

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers Monday filed an appeal to sanction Sidney Powell, former attorney for Donald Trump, for the “erroneous” election fraud challenges she filed concerning the 2020 president election. This is not the first time Powell has been involved in litigation regarding the 2020 presidential election.

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Texas state bar files complaint against former Trump attorney for alleged misconduct

JURIST

A standing committee of the State Bar of Texas filed a Complaint in the District Court of Dallas County, Texas against former president Donald Trump’s attorney Sidney Powell, claiming that she engaged in misconduct by pursuing baseless lawsuits alleging fraud in the 2020 presidential election. a)(1) , 3.03(a)(5) a)(5) , and 8.04(a)(3)

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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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Opioid manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals announces $4.35B settlement with state, local governments

JURIST

One example of such a case is the one brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James against Teva. State and local governments with lawsuits against Teva—excluding New York, which is pursuing separate litigation—are all potentially party to the settlement Teva announced Tuesday. In the settlement, Teva agreed to pay $4.25

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I Was Interviewed by a Paralegal Student

Paralegal Bootcamp

I spent 18 years as a litigation paralegal and a paralegal manager. I would train them from start to finish on everything they need to know for their litigation cases. I saw the joy in them when they had these great careers and were being called rockstar paralegals by the attorneys. Let’s say it’s litigation.

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Six cases to look out for

SCOTUSBlog

The district court held that the allegations were inadequate under the heightened pleading standards of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act , which Congress adopted to curb perceived abuses of securities litigation. Wisconsin Bell asked the full 7th Circuit to hear the case, noting that a panel of the U.S.

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Justices throw out Texas lawsuit that sought to block election outcome

SCOTUSBlog

The Supreme Court on Friday rebuffed Texas’ request to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in four states – Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – that provided key electoral votes to President-elect Joe Biden. In a brief order issued just before 6:30 p.m., Arkansas Teacher Retirement System.

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