This is not true now, because one of the largest shareholders is typically the lead litigant.
Another day, another furious litigant claiming that an Apple product infringes on one of their patents.
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This, after GE had accused the litigant of aiding the original fraud by letting it drag on.
Another stunning aspect of this arbitration was the imposition of sanctions upon a pro se litigant for prolonging the hearings.
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And I think the Supreme Court would say that the government's need to protect the country is going to outweigh the need of any particular civil litigant.
" Despite constitutional guarantees, he adds, "it takes a long time to adjudicate cases, longer if the claimant or litigant is poor and unable to pay the costs.
When a litigant files a certiorari petition in the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking review of a lower court decision, the opposing party has 30 days to file a response.
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As someone who now has a speciality in e-discovery, I see a small trend where the courts are reaching for mechanisms to impose undue costs of discovery on the litigant responsible for them.
Thibodeau, for example, is one of nine people who emerged from the compound alive on April 19 and is an unnamed litigant in a class action, an excessive-force lawsuit in Texas by survivors and victims' families.
Shedding light on the discomfort felt even by the majority, the court ordered the U.S. government to pay the legal costs of the plaintiffs, something virtually unheard of when a litigant is on the winning end of a case.
To be sure, we are plagued by a new species of patent litigant these days, the so-called patent troll, who buys up questionable patents in hopes of extracting payments from deep-pocketed companies eager to avoid the expense of litigation.
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