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

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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] Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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February 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Vermont Supreme Court Affirmed Public Utility Commission Approval for Solar Project. The Vermont Supreme Court upheld the Vermont Public Utility Commission’s decision granting a certificate of public good for construction and operation of a solar net-metering system. European Investment Bank (EU General Court).

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The mining company’s emergency motion after the August 2017 order asked the court to amend its judgment and stay the injunction. In addition, the court found that the company had failed to show that the alleged RICO violations proximately caused injury to its business or property. Energy & Environment Legal Institute v.

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