Law Practice
Feb. 15, 2017
Trump travel ban shines light on litigation funding
A new wave of litigation funding helps donors make points instead of profits. By Nora Freeman Engstrom and Nathan Werksman
Nora Freeman Engstrom
Professor
Stanford Law School
Email: nora.engstrom@law.stanford.edu
Nora writes and teaches about the civil justice system.
Days after President Donald Trump signed the "travel ban" executive order, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia issued a temporary restraining order against the government in Aziz v. Trump, a case involving 60 people detained at Dulles Airport. While the case drew lots of media attention for successfully shielding the Aziz brothers from deportation, it also drew attention because...
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