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Municipality Litigation

Plaintiffs’ lawyers are now enlisting cities and counties as plaintiffs in lawsuits over public policy issues best left to legislators. They pitch their services on a contingency fee basis while promising cities and counties an easy, no-risk revenue source. But too often, that revenue never comes—at the expense of victims. States must rein in municipality lawsuits so there can be a path to justice for everyone.

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Mitigating Municipality Litigation: Scope and Solutions

Municipality litigation is becoming an extremely popular business model for the plaintiffs’ bar. Entrepreneurial contingency fee attorneys are teaming up with cash-strapped municipalities,…

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Research
Fall 2021 | ILR Research Review | Volume 8, Issue 2
ILR Briefly: Municipality Litigation: A Continuing Threat
Spring 2021 | ILR Research Review | Volume 8, Issue 1
Litigation vs. Restoration: Addressing Louisiana's Coastal Land Loss 2021
Litigation vs. Restoration: Addressing Louisiana's Coastal Land Loss 2019
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