Additionally, you do not have the number of frivolous law suits in patent litigation that you have in other civil litigation because it is so expensive to litigate patent infringement.
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In 1998, Husband became embroiled in a partnership dispute with one of his law partners, which resulted in litigation that lasted over a decade.
The plaintiffs won funding from London-based Burford Group last year, and that firm, which invests in corporate litigation, demanded that Patton Boggs join the case.
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That could set in motion months of additional litigation that could wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court.
People involved in this kind of litigation in Britain say that they have evidence of instances where witnesses have been intimidated by sleuthing and snooping on behalf of the plaintiffs, who may have powerful state backers keen to uncover their opponents' sources and methods.
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But on a more general level, the court's order highlights the challenges that inhere in applying a civil litigation framework to wartime decisions that often must be made on the basis of the best available intelligence.
The school committee joined their side late last year, figuring an investment trust would likely pay out better yields than a land trust that has to deal with erosion control and other improvements, in addition to the litigation that would restart if the settlement isn't improved.
President Clinton has adamantly denied that he had any such intention and that denial is fortified by the undisputed factual record establishing that Betty Currie neither was an actual or a contemplated witness in the Jones litigation, nor did she perceive that she was being pressured in any respect by the president to agree with what he was saying.
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One of the most common allegations in estate litigation is that the testator lacked the mental capacity to sign his will.
Janice Brown, founder of Brown Law Group, a San Diego law firm that specializes in employment litigation, says monitoring employees' computer activities isn't illegal.
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Regarding the Supreme Court decision on violent video games, Entertainment Software Association President and CEO Michael Gallagher talks about that litigation in the video interview below.
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For investors in NIR Group funds, however, the most troubling disclosure in the litigation is that on Tuesday PIPE Equity wrote down its NIR assets down to 30 cents on the dollar.
On a theoretical level, he knew that there was a lot of litigation in the software industry and that a lot of people were upset about it.
The fen-phen case, in all its turns, illustrates the conflicts and collusion that are inherent in mass-tort litigation.
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It has filed 49 securities lawsuits over the past two years, sometimes at a rate of two or three a week, making a mockery of provisions in the Public Securities Litigation Reform Act that prohibits any entity from serving as a lead plaintiff in more than five cases in a three-year period.
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The attorneys for the players whose cases are pending in federal court in Philadelphia will no doubt use that logic in an attempt to shorten the litigation process.
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Artists in litigation with companies that felt they could lift songs and not have to pay the piper is not really new.
Even Mr. Schumann, one of the many small business plaintiffs in the litigation, notes that he wouldn't necessarily begin tacking on surcharges for purchases with plastic right away.
Ray Clifford, who was representing himself in the litigation, said that while he hadn't heard from coalition lawyers in weeks, he was unaware the case had gone away until Forbes contacted him.
The company could have continued to litigate the case for years, attempting to prove that it had spoken truthfully about its offshore labor practices, but it understood that every new twist and turn in the litigation would amount to millions of dollars in bad publicity for a company that spent millions trying to build and maintain its brand.
In the process, these Members have already provided another boost for environmental "lawfare" that will likely encourage similar litigation in the future.
Vince Galvin of Bowman and Brooke, who represents Toyota in the current multidistrict litigation over unintended acceleration in its cars, acknowledged that preemption was unlikely to be an issue in that case.
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In that role, she presides over litigation pursuant to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
Indeed, the district court at an earlier stage in this litigation had done precisely that.
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But what counts in drug litigation is the information that goes to doctors, who are in charge of prescribing medicines.
Without any evidence of antitrust violations or consumer harm, the legal hurdles would be too high to bring a search case that would inevitably result in protracted litigation with little chance of success.
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Perhaps then it should come as no surprise that Las Vegas is viewed as a hub of litigation funding, or that one of the chief proponents of litigation funding in the U.K. is famous for casino investments.
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It would be based on a 1995 decision by the ever-loopy Ninth Circuit in California that reversed a Tax Court decision and found that lawyers could write off the costs of litigation in the year they were incurred, instead of when they actually get a fee.
That's where LFL's new owners come in, getting into the growing market of litigation funding - that is, raising risk capital with the prospect of a big share of eventual pay-outs.
In August, Apple won a landmark patent litigation dispute, as the court found that Samsung was in violation of six Apple patents.
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