Sam's dissertation focuses on the impact of litigation strategy in the enforcement on socio-economic rights in South Africa.
Because of these aspects, complex care might increase the impact of litigation risk on physician behavior and lead to more defensive medicine.
An important additional issue regarding the use of these criteria involves the impact of litigation or disability determination (or both) on the validity of symptom reporting and neuropsychological test performance.
Junior Seau's death has had a significant impact on pending litigation against the N.F.L. and on conversations among former players.
The city's findings have no immediate impact on the litigation because the court is not ready to rule on the severity of illnesses or make connections between diseases and exposure to ground zero dust.
The working paper, released this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research, challenges the effectiveness of RTC laws and could have a significant impact on pending litigation between the National Rifle Association and the state of California.
Rakoff's ruling could have an impact on similar litigation pending in New York courts, including MBIA's multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Bank of America for breaching its representations and warranties on MBIA-guaranteed bonds.
Today's decision doesn't affect well-settled law covering who has standing to sue over environmental regulations, say, or government wiretapping, and will have its biggest impact on business litigation.
However, though the bill may have some impacts on NPE litigation and would increase awareness of NPE activity (such as, for example, Intellectual Ventures' connection to the notorious patent troll Oasis), it is unlikely that this measure alone would move the needle much in significantly curtailing NPE assertions.
