Judge Should Bow Out of Litigation-Funding Probe, Lawyer Says

Delaware’s chief judge should withdraw last week’s defense of his “inherent authority” to probe patent-litigation funding because he didn’t give one targeted plaintiff or its counsel a chance to respond, according to the lawyer’s filings, which also seek the judge’s recusal.

The 78-page memorandum Judge Colm F. Connolly issued Nov. 30 in four of Nimitz Technologies LLC’s cases against companies including CNET Media Inc. and Buzzfeed Inc. denies Nimitz and its counsel “their rights to Due Process under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution,” according to the motion to withdraw filed Thursday in the US District Court for the District ...