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26 May 2016, 3:38 am
Champerty and maintenance were once illegal. [read post]
25 May 2016, 4:56 am
How often do you get to think about champerty and maintenance these days? [read post]
24 May 2016, 9:16 pm
Tags: champerty, litigation finance Champerty and maintenance explainer (Gawker/Hogan/Thiel edition) is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
23 Mar 2016, 4:19 pm
Champerty is the process whereby one person bargains with a party to a lawsuit to obtain a share in the proceeds of the suit. [read post]
10 Nov 2015, 10:02 pm
Blake Farenthold, The Hill] Tags: arbitration, asbestos, champerty, litigation finance, Mikal Watts, privacy, sportsLiability roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
29 Oct 2015, 12:30 pm
Are you concerned about the ethics of litigation finance? [read post]
11 Oct 2015, 9:05 pm
Sun; Warrants, HIPAA be damned: Drug Enforcement Administration agents pose as Texas medical board to get at patient records [Jon Cassidy/Watchdog, Tim Cushing/TechDirt via Radley Balko] Litigation finance and champerty: the reaction is under way [MathBabe, earlier on pelvic and transvaginal mesh surgery speculation] No longer alas a surprise to see JAMA Pediatrics running lame, politicized content on topics like “youth gun carrying” [Jacob Sullum] “Shame, blame,… [read post]
3 Oct 2015, 4:04 pm
As well as the defamation claim, the appellant also included claims for malicious prosecution, champerty and maintenance, intentional interference with economic relations and intentional infliction of mental distress. [read post]
Doctor Tries to Shut Down Med Malpractice Lawsuit by Suing Victim’s Lawyers: Frank v. Legate et. al.
22 Sep 2015, 11:10 am
Frank also claimed that she was the victim of malicious prosecution, that the plaintiffs’ lawyers were guilty of champerty and maintenance (a very old legal principle that prohibits plaintiffs from starting litigation with an improper motive), intentional interference with economic relations and intentional infliction of mental distress. [read post]
16 Sep 2015, 3:30 pm
Defendants moved to dismiss the action, arguing that the doctrine of champerty precluded Justinian’s claims. [read post]
20 Jul 2015, 8:59 am
These prohibitions included those directed at conspiracy, maintenance, champerty, and embracery. [read post]
19 Dec 2014, 1:30 pm
What do the doctrines of champerty, maintenance, and barratry mean for third-party litigation financiers? [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 4:00 am
I know some of the other principals involved including University of Ottawa President Allan Rock, some of the lawyers at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (my former law firm in Toronto) who represented the University of Ottawa on the defendant’s unsuccessful champerty motion. [read post]
25 Jun 2014, 7:00 am
I was mired in a Champerty motion that delayed my day in court by years. [read post]
22 May 2014, 7:48 am
So Righthaven went a little too far trying to monetize it, and it got hung up on a couple of problems: First the Copyright Act itself, in its wisdom, bars its business model, which was basically to purchase choses in action for litigation purposes — “champerty. [read post]
1 May 2014, 9:01 pm
It is a highly sophisticated, and now acceptable, form of “champerty and maintenance. [read post]
3 Mar 2014, 8:05 pm
Howard on lawsuit finance and champerty] Will health insurers be the ones to pull back the curtain on the asbestos bankruptcy trusts? [read post]
27 Feb 2014, 5:58 am
The survival and scope of champerty is important today because it is the darling of the opponents of litigation funding, which has become pervasive in recent years.... [read post]
11 Feb 2014, 3:30 am
Third-party litigation funding is also known as champerty, and has been prohibited for a long time under the common law. [read post]
16 Jan 2014, 12:09 am
(As discussed here, “maintenance" is the intermeddling of a disinterested party to encourage a lawsuit and “champerty” is the "maintenance" of a person in a lawsuit on condition that the subject matter of the action is to be shared with the maintainer.) [read post]
