"The city does not have the ability to run the homeless system in a way that makes sense because litigation focuses on short-term narrow issues," said Nancy Wackstein, the top homeless official in the Dinkins administration.
He currently serves as an expert witness in litigation focused on the labeling of foods containing genetically engineered ingredients.
Late last week one of the ACLU's staff attorneys was cross-examined in the High Court in Ireland as an expert witness in a piece of litigation focused on Facebook's use of a data transfer mechanism to authorize its processing of Europeans' data in the U.S.
Ten years ago, the litigation focused on vermin living on East Block that left inmates with rodent bites and encrusted the tier railings in pigeon dung.
When the Affordable Care Act was challenged as unconstitutional, most of the litigation focused on whether Congress' power to "regulate commerce" included the authority to require all people with an adequate income to have health insurance.
Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit NAACP, told The Huffington Post that, unlike previous lawsuits that have emphasized violations of the state's Open Meetings Act and concerns about collective bargaining, this litigation focuses on violations of voting rights and equal protection rights protected under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The insurer said last week that it would pay $350 million to settle the litigation, which focused on pricing databases operated by its Ingenix subsidiary.
Joseph Cordell is the Principal Partner of Cordell & Cordell, a nationwide domestic litigation firm focused on men's family law matters.
In the United States, organizations of disabled people built on the momentum of the American civil rights movement, focusing on litigation and legislation connected to civil rights.
Further, I would expect NPE business models to adapt if the SHIELD Act were to become law by, for example, focusing on litigation financing of individual inventors.
