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The appellate review system is intended to serve as an efficient remedy for imperfect judicial decision making. However, it can fulfill this task only when appeals are filed solely due to bad verdicts and are ex-ante unpredictable based on factors that are exogenous to the judge. Using data from...
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technologies can facilitate the conduct and resolution of large scale, complex class action litigation in the higher courts through …
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Entrepreneurial litigation is litigation in which the plaintiff's attorney functions as a risk-taking entrepreneur …, financing, organizing, managing, and settling the litigation on behalf of numerous clients (who generally hold “negative value … with respect to legal fees. Yet, despite these obstacles, entrepreneurial litigation appears now to be coming to both …
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Rule 23(a)(2). Third, there is a clear trend toward “front-loading” class litigation – that is, the need to do more and …
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extra-compensatory damages in complex litigation (among others, Shady Grove Orthopedic Assoc. v. Allstate Ins. Co.), and …, constructive dialog between criminal and civil punitive sanctions, especially in the field of mass litigation …
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The aim of this study is to elucidate whether arbitration offers advantages compared to the patent litigation system … litigation system are presented, i.e. the economic importance of the German market and its impact on litigation, the remedy of … revocation proceedings. This account is followed by a comparison of arbitration and litigation in Germany in the light of the …
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This article concerns the recent case of Georges v United Nations, which constitutes, to date, the most elaborate public law challenge to the principle of UN immunity from suit and private law attempt at procuring compensation from the UN for alleged malfeasance. Despite the fact that it relates...
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there is, how to remedy it. This article reports results from a survey of litigation involving Australian universities from … 1985-2006. It demonstrates that litigation involving universities has indeed increased significantly; reveals who litigates …
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