Add to ORKGNearly twenty years ago, speaking of the difficulties inherent in managing mass tort cases, Chief Justice William Rehnquist predicted that without coordinated state and federal mechanisms, lawyers would seek to pursue duplicative and exhaustive litigation. And some courts, operating under a parochial view of the situation, would allow them to do so. He warned that the result would be expense, delay, resulting crowding of dockets, divergent decisions on identical factual questions, and sometimes the insolvency of the defendants who are being sued. Despite this and similar warnings, expensive and exhaustive litigation is exactly what has happened in many cases
The abstention doctrine articulated by the Supreme Court in 1941 in Railroad Commission of Texas v. ...
For thirty years, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have relied on active Judicial case managemen...
Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio
Nearly twenty years ago, speaking of the difficulties inherent in managing mass tort cases, Chief Ju...
In 2004, just five years after introducing the drug, Vioxx, pharmaceutical company, Merck, voluntari...
This article explores a continuing disagreement among Justices of the United States Supreme Court re...
The boundaries of federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) are blurring, as district courts seek innov...
It is the way of symposia that, after conveners assign topics for discussion, participants interpret...
A Review of Federal Practice and Procedure, Volumes 13-19: Jurisdiction and Related Matters by Char...
Part I introduces the central themes in the law of federal question jurisdiction. It describes the p...
In the recent proliferation of tort reform statutes, the dangerous clause of remedial jurisdiction s...
Although most current proposals for consolidation adjudication of mass tort cases call for these cas...
The role of courts in mass tort litigation is examined. The courts\u27 interests in such cases, the ...
My objective here is to challenge the notion that the recent mass tort settlements - for all their n...
The topic of Mass and Repetitive Litigation in the Federal Courts is even more vast and unwieldy t...
The abstention doctrine articulated by the Supreme Court in 1941 in Railroad Commission of Texas v. ...
For thirty years, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have relied on active Judicial case managemen...
Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio
Nearly twenty years ago, speaking of the difficulties inherent in managing mass tort cases, Chief Ju...
In 2004, just five years after introducing the drug, Vioxx, pharmaceutical company, Merck, voluntari...
This article explores a continuing disagreement among Justices of the United States Supreme Court re...
The boundaries of federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) are blurring, as district courts seek innov...
It is the way of symposia that, after conveners assign topics for discussion, participants interpret...
A Review of Federal Practice and Procedure, Volumes 13-19: Jurisdiction and Related Matters by Char...
Part I introduces the central themes in the law of federal question jurisdiction. It describes the p...
In the recent proliferation of tort reform statutes, the dangerous clause of remedial jurisdiction s...
Although most current proposals for consolidation adjudication of mass tort cases call for these cas...
The role of courts in mass tort litigation is examined. The courts\u27 interests in such cases, the ...
My objective here is to challenge the notion that the recent mass tort settlements - for all their n...
The topic of Mass and Repetitive Litigation in the Federal Courts is even more vast and unwieldy t...
The abstention doctrine articulated by the Supreme Court in 1941 in Railroad Commission of Texas v. ...
For thirty years, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have relied on active Judicial case managemen...
Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio