Denis O'Brien, the Irish media magnate with a Maxwellian penchant for litigation, has come up with a wonderful wheeze to aid his legal action against Ireland's parliament He wants the Dublin high court to accept opinions advanced by an expert in US constitutional law.
This raises another important issue: potential defendants in toxic tort litigation (and law enforcement officials on the criminal side) have the resources to conduct or fund research valuable for litigation that has contingent value, but potential civil plaintiffs (and criminal defendants) do not.
"Litigation for Russian clients has been a massive source of revenue for a number of firms – both big firms and boutique firms," he said.
Such hard graft may be a necessity: proof, as with the sale of his Park Avenue apartment three years ago (for $25.87m) that he may not be enjoying quite the life of unending luxury that some would imagine, and setting money aside for future litigation, which has so far been met from the coffers of Lehmans' insurers.
But in addition to that, mobile patent litigation has, for better or worse, proven to be lucrative for those who win — either by way of licensing fees (one example: the cut that Microsoft gets on Android devices) or court victories (the $1 billion Apple/Samsung case perhaps being the most notable example, even if it is still getting contested).
Perinatal litigation has for some time been the largest single factor in compensation payouts for clinical negligence.
"The doomsday scenarios for this private litigation would have threatened the solvency of the biggest banks.
"DLA seems to love to lowball the bills and with the number of bodies being thrown at this thing it's going to stay stupidly high and with the absurd litigation P.O.A. has been in for years it does have lots of wrinkles," Mr. Thomson wrote.
The extent to which malodor is an aesthetic issue versus a threat to health is a subject of scientific investigation and litigation that has important implications for environmental regulation, public health, and environmental justice (Thu 1998).
PsyStar, everyone's favorite litigation landmine, has upgraded their cases for their standard PCs.
