• “Copyright troll Righthaven in its death throes, domain going up for auction” [Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing]
• Controversy over litigation finance continues [WaPo, NYPost]
• Presumably unrelated to above: “Unpaid Bills Land Some Debtors Behind Bars” [NPR]
• “Rent Control Violates Property Rights and Due Process” [Ilya Shapiro and Trevor Burrus, Cato, on Harmon v. Kimmel cert petition]
• Child abuse horrors result in dubious policy proposals including moves to abolish statutes of limitation, cast wider mandatory-reporting net [Howard Wasserman/PrawfsBlawg, Kyle Graham/Concurring Opinions]
• Schwab IRA class action settlement: lawyers get $500K while benefit to class is unclear [Lawrence Schonbron, Washington Times]
• “State Court Challenges to Legislatively Enacted Tort Reforms” [Andrew Cook and Emily Kelchen, Federalist Society “State Court Docket Watch”]

Filed under: child abuse, class action settlements, debtor-creditor law, litigation finance, RightHaven, statutes of limitations