Civil Litigation,
Law Practice
Mar. 11, 2019
Seeing through the Litigation Funding Transparency Act of 2019
The Litigation Funding Transparency Act offers no sound policy basis and runs contrary to basic tenets of relevance governing discovery in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Last month, a group of U.S. senators introduced the Litigation Funding Transparency Act of 2019. The proposed legislation seeks to mandate disclosure of both the existence of litigation funding agreements and their terms in any federal class action or multi-district litigation. Under even a minimal level of scrutiny, this bill should not become law: It offers no sound policy basis, runs contrary to basic tenets of relevance governing discovery in the Federal Rules of ...
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