Delaware Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly not only has standing orders operative in his courtroom concerning the disclosure of corporate control and third-party litigation funding (TPLF), but also has a track record of enforcing compliance with them. Filing in Delaware thus brings with it the possibility of assignment to Judge Connolly’s courtroom—and application of the transparency required there. Stakeholders have tried to leverage the disclosures under those standing orders to argue that such transparency should be implemented more broadly, with emphasis on the TPLF disclosures; in the meantime, those orders continue to unveil something simpler: plaintiff ownership.
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