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Conservative free market groups are raising concerns that a GOP provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will cut off a key mechanism used to fund lawsuits against “woke” corporations and others, including Planned Parenthood.
Initially proposed as a way to limit frivolous lawsuits, conservatives charge that the provision will instead protect corporate America from “little guy” suits.
At issue is the inclusion of the “Tackling Predatory Litigation Funding Act,” offered in the Senate version of the reconciliation bill by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and in the House by Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK).
Senator Thom Tillis just slipped a massive gift to Big Pharma, Big Tech, and woke corporations into the “Big Beautiful Bill.” His anti-litigation finance plan (S.1821) slaps a 41% tax on the very tool that helps ordinary Americans fight back in court.
This bill protects elites… pic.twitter.com/0x11EXHAD0
— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) June 24, 2025
Tillis said the goal was to stop predatory suits by hitting third-party funding of court actions, for which the funders get a piece of any settlement. Both Hern and Tillis warned that “foreign entities” are often the funders.
