Author: Robert H. Klonoff
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9781640202542
Category : Complex litigation
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This text is for students taking courses in complex litigation, advanced civil procedure, or mass torts. It is also designed as a concise book for members of the bench and bar who are handling multidistrict litigation cases. Its focus is on all aspects of federal multidistrict litigation (MDL), including statistics on MDL cases; comparisons with other aggregation devices (such as class actions); the decision of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (the Panel) to centralize cases (including the standards for centralization and the selection of the MDL district court and judge); appellate review of Panel decisions; tag-along cases; the role of the MDL transferee judge (including case management, designating lead lawyers and committees, deciding motions, conducting bellwether trials, overseeing settlements, and awarding attorneys' fees); choice-of-law issues in MDLs; personal jurisdiction and venue issues; remand of transferred cases; federal/state coordination (including state MDL statutes); and proposals for reform of MDL practice.
Federal Multidistrict Litigation in a Nutshell
Author: Robert H. Klonoff
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9781640202542
Category : Complex litigation
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This text is for students taking courses in complex litigation, advanced civil procedure, or mass torts. It is also designed as a concise book for members of the bench and bar who are handling multidistrict litigation cases. Its focus is on all aspects of federal multidistrict litigation (MDL), including statistics on MDL cases; comparisons with other aggregation devices (such as class actions); the decision of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (the Panel) to centralize cases (including the standards for centralization and the selection of the MDL district court and judge); appellate review of Panel decisions; tag-along cases; the role of the MDL transferee judge (including case management, designating lead lawyers and committees, deciding motions, conducting bellwether trials, overseeing settlements, and awarding attorneys' fees); choice-of-law issues in MDLs; personal jurisdiction and venue issues; remand of transferred cases; federal/state coordination (including state MDL statutes); and proposals for reform of MDL practice.
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9781640202542
Category : Complex litigation
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This text is for students taking courses in complex litigation, advanced civil procedure, or mass torts. It is also designed as a concise book for members of the bench and bar who are handling multidistrict litigation cases. Its focus is on all aspects of federal multidistrict litigation (MDL), including statistics on MDL cases; comparisons with other aggregation devices (such as class actions); the decision of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (the Panel) to centralize cases (including the standards for centralization and the selection of the MDL district court and judge); appellate review of Panel decisions; tag-along cases; the role of the MDL transferee judge (including case management, designating lead lawyers and committees, deciding motions, conducting bellwether trials, overseeing settlements, and awarding attorneys' fees); choice-of-law issues in MDLs; personal jurisdiction and venue issues; remand of transferred cases; federal/state coordination (including state MDL statutes); and proposals for reform of MDL practice.
Mass Tort Deals
Author: Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108416977
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Presenting twenty-two years of multidistrict litigation data, this book exposes a systematic lack of checks and balances in our courts.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108416977
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Presenting twenty-two years of multidistrict litigation data, this book exposes a systematic lack of checks and balances in our courts.
Multidistrict Litigation
Author: David F. Herr
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Multidistrict Litigation: Eighty-ninth Congress, second session and Ninetieth Congress, First session on S. 3815-89th Cong. [and] S. 159-90th Cong. a proposal to provide pretrial consolidation of multidistrict litigation, on January 24, 1967
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discovery (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discovery (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Suggested Procedures for Multidistrict Litigation
Author: United States. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Publisher:
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Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Ten Steps to Better Case Management
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Complex litigation
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Complex litigation
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Multidistrict Litigation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discovery (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discovery (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Provisional Rules of Procedure of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Author: United States. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Publisher:
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Category : District courts
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : District courts
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Manual for Complex and Multidistrict Litigation
Author: Federal Judicial Center. Board of Editors
Publisher:
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Category : Complex litigation
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Complex litigation
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Multidistrict Litigation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pre-trial procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Hearing of Oct. 20, 21, 1966 held Chicago, Illinois.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pre-trial procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Hearing of Oct. 20, 21, 1966 held Chicago, Illinois.