Protecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires disclosure of foreign third-party litigation funding in federal civil cases, prohibits funding by foreign states and sovereign wealth funds, and mandates annual DOJ reporting.
Who Benefits and How
Federal courts, DOJ, and policymakers could gain more visibility into foreign-funded litigation and more restrictions on foreign sovereign-backed litigation finance.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Litigants and counsel would have to make extensive funding disclosures, and foreign funders tied to states or sovereign wealth funds would face outright bans.
Key Provisions
- Defines foreign person, foreign state, and sovereign wealth fund for federal litigation-funding transparency rules.
- Requires parties or counsel to disclose certain foreign funding interests to the court, other parties, and DOJ.
- Requires annual DOJ reports to Congress on foreign third-party litigation funding in federal courts.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires disclosure of foreign third-party litigation funding in federal civil cases, prohibits funding by foreign states and sovereign wealth funds, and mandates annual DOJ reporting.
Key Policy Areas
Judiciary, Foreign Policy, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Requires disclosure of foreign third-party litigation funding in federal civil cases, prohibits funding by foreign states and sovereign wealth funds, and mandates annual DOJ reporting.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Federal courts, DOJ, and policymakers seeking visibility into foreign-funded litigation
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Litigants, counsel, and foreign litigation funders subject to new disclosure and funding restrictions
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Kennedy introduced the following bill; which was read twice …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Congress and DOJ receiving annual reporting on foreign-funded litigation, Federal courts, DOJ, and policymakers seeking visibility into foreign-funded litigation
Litigants, counsel, and foreign litigation funders subject to new disclosure and funding restrictions
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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