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Showing 1 to 20 of 450 for “"litigation"”.
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Impact of Litigation Financing Disclosures on Patent Litigation
This paper investigates the impact of mandatory litigation financing disclosures on litigation outcomes, particularly in patent litigation. Despite the increasing importance of litigation funding, transparency regarding funders’ involvement remains limited. Using a differences-in-differences model, …
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Divorce, parent education, and litigation
… parents was associated with differences in the litigation behavior of the parents consistent with a lowered level of conflict between the parties. 130 cases from Morgan County, Indiana, in which the parents attended the program were randomly selected and compared with 130 cases from the same …
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Litigation Finance in Environmental Disputes
Litigation finance can be deployed within the field of environmental disputes as effectively as in traditionally targeted practice areas, in order to further the aims of environmental protection. To substantiate this statement, the mechanism of litigation finance will be scrutinized first, …
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Parental Alienation in Quebec Custody Litigation
… the use of parental alienation in custody litigation. It concludes that alienation has varying and inconsistent definitions in law, that there is a considerable disconnect between the state of the research in science and judges’ knowledge on alienation, and that the concept of parental …
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Litigation contingency disclosures by Canadian public companies
Litigation-type contingencies represent one of the most frequent and most important uncertainties faced in business. Inspired by the Entwistle et al. (1994) study, this study focuses on two aspects of litigation contingencies: the current status of disclosure practices by public firms, and the …
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Trends in Education Related Litigation: 1986-2004
ABSTRACT TRENDS IN EDUCATION-RELATED LITIGATION: 1986-2004 Much of what is believed about the amount and types of litigation in education is based on hunches and impressions rather than empirical research. This study provides a more accurate statistical picture of trends in education-related …
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Third Party Litigation Funding A Comparative Analysis
… parties to a dispute from the costs and risks of litigation in change for a percentage of the recovery, only in case of victory, sometimes even transferring the claim. This new business practice is now commonly referred to as ‘Third Party Litigation Funding’ ('TPLF'), and it is often mentioned in …
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Effect of litigation risk on management forecasts
… behavior of firms and changes in ex ante litigation risk as proxied by changes in the firms' director and officer insurance premiums. I find evidence that there is a negative link between the voluntary disclosure of bad news and ex ante litigation risk. I find no evidence of a …
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Corporate litigation, corporate governance restructuring, and executive compensation.
… companies, following encounters with litigation. Corporate litigation can impose significant wealth losses upon the sued companies, giving rise to both agency and reputational incentives to instigate changes. The thesis addresses the issue of whether, and to what extent, public …
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Accounting on trial: Forensic accountant communication in litigation
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Subsidized housing in the suburbs: legislation or litigation?
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1971. M.C.P.
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Shareholder litigation and the information content of management voluntary disclosure
… managers’ voluntary disclosures in a shareholder litigation environment. I model the litigation mechanism in which the legal liability is based on the actual damages shareholders incur from buying a stock at an inflated price. I find that the optimal disclosure strategy in equilibrium does not …
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Litigation against public companies that fail to disclose timely information
… investors' wrath of a lawsuit. 152 class action litigation cases in the US were recorded for 2012. This paper investigates (i) what are the noticeable differences in headlines and news details between the litigation group and the comparable group; (ii) why some cases in the litigation group did …
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