The name Terry Bollea probably means little to anyone in Kansas.
But Bollea - better known by his professional wrestling ring name, Hulk Hogan - is emblematic of a debate playing out at the Capitol over how far the state should go to regulate third-party funding of civil lawsuits.
Bollea - or Hulk Hogan as the case may be - filed an invasion of privacy lawsuit against the online news outlet Gawker Media in 2016.
He won a $140 million judgment against the media company and after the trial concluded, published reports revealed the case was financed by Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel . . .
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