Patently O
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
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]
Conflict of Laws
JUNE 29, 2023
Lieberknecht: The Okpabi case — Has Human Rights Litigation in England reached its Zenith In its Okpabi decision, the UK Supreme Court continues the approach it developed in the Vedanta case regarding the liability of parent companies for human rights infringements committed by their subsidiaries.
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Conflict of Laws
OCTOBER 29, 2021
Thus, the general rule of the place of tort applies equally to corporations and private individuals. [1] 1] In similar, the advancing principle of party autonomy [2] does not distinguish between corporations and other litigants on its operational level. L 199) 40 (EC), art 4 (1). [2]
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
In celebration of Thanksgiving, I give you our annual Turkey Torts of civil and criminal cases that add liability to libations on this special day (with past cases at the bottom). Indeed, the torts and crimes recorded this year seem painfully reminiscent of this loathsome year. The result is a horn of plenty for litigators.
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Only when it became a public embarrassment did the Bidens send Major to Delaware. He was then sent away to Delaware with Champ. I have taught torts for three decades, including animal liability. If these attacks were litigated, I have little doubt that the Bidens would be held liable if they were an average family.
Fordham Law News
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
They all used bankruptcy to try to get out of mass tort claims. [1] 7] The first step is to create a new corporation, usually in a business friendly state like Texas or Delaware. [8] 8] The second step is to then transfer the tort liabilities into the new corporations. [9] 4] This strategy is known as the Texas two-step. [5]
JonathanTurley
APRIL 19, 2023
Many of us who teach in the areas of tort and constitutional law were uneasy over the impact of a verdict in light of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in New York Times v. Fox was recently hit by damaging rulings by Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis in clearing the path for the lawsuit. Sullivan in the 1960s.
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