Dougan v. Centerplate, Inc., et al.,1 began as a wage-and-hour class action filed in state court. Defendants removed the case to the Southern District of California. Shortly thereafter, plaintiff filed a separate—but similar—action in state court pursuant...
How to Choose a Funder
One of my favorite concepts from the first year of law school is the idea that property is a “bundle of sticks”—i.e., “a collection of individual rights which, in certain combinations, constitute property.” United States v. Craft, 535 U.S. 274, 278 (2002). ...
Why Litigation Finance?
Pretty much every litigator I know wants, or wants to learn more about, litigation finance. Everyone has a general sense that it helps clients get better access to the courts. Junior partners want it to build a plaintiff-side docket. Senior partners...
Russian Bots and Organized Crime Found a New Source of Money: U.S. Class Action Settlements
Exploiting access to free money has now taken a dark turn costing companies millions of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse. Current conventional wisdom among administrators is that they are concerned about organized crime and bad actors, filing tens or hundreds...
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