Maslowski v. Prospect Funding Partners LLC
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The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the district court and court of appeals finding that a repurchase rate in a litigation financing agreement violated Minnesota's usury statute, Minn. Stat. 334.01, holding that such an agreement is not subject to the usury law when repayment of the purchase price is contingent upon a recovery in the underlying litigation.
Appellants sought enforcement of a litigation financing agreement they entered into with Respondent. The lower courts deemed the agreement unenforceable as violating the common-law prohibition on champerty. Following reversal, Respondent challenged the enforceability of the agreement on several different grounds. The district court and court of appeals held that the repurchase rate violated section 334.01 and that the rate, reduced to eight percent, began to accrue after the date of the Court's decision in Maslowski I. The Supreme Court reversed and remanded the case, holding (1) the agreement was not subject to section 334.01; (2) remand was required to address Respondent's challenge to the repurchase rate under the common-law doctrine of unconscionability; and (3) the repurchase rate began to accrue after the litigation financing agreement was signed, not after this Court's abolition of the former prohibition on champerty.
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