Legal Opinion
Fountain v. Oasis Legal Finance, LLC
District Court, D. Minnesota
Decided February 5, 2015No. Case No. 14-cv-3475 (PAM/BRT)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*1040MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
PAUL A. MAGNUSON, District Judge.
This matter is before the Court on Oasis’s Motion to Dismiss. For the reasons that follow, the Court grants the Motion.
BACKGROUND
The factual allegations at the core of this case raise a legal doctrine with ancient and medieval roots: champerty. Champerty, and its companion doctrine of maintenance, describe an agreement between a nonparty to a lawsuit and a litigant, under which the nonparty finances the litigant’s prosecution of the lawsuit in exchange for a portion of the lawsuit’s proceeds if the litigant is successful. Johnson v. Wright,…
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