U.S. District Court, N.D. Ill. · US (IL) · 2019 · Decided
Citation/Docket: 2019 WL 6609298 (N.D. Ill. Dec. 5, 2019)
Posture: Discovery dispute
Funder(s) involved: (Consumer/civil-rights funding)
Defendants sought litigation funding information from a funded plaintiff.
Funding discovery denied as irrelevant absent a particularized showing.
The majority U.S. rule: no funding discovery without case-specific relevance, but the exception now has teeth (see Lituma).
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