Mass Tort Deals

Mass Tort Deals

Author: Elizabeth Chamblee Burch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-05-16

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1108416977

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Presenting twenty-two years of multidistrict litigation data, this book exposes a systematic lack of checks and balances in our courts.


Federal Multidistrict Litigation in a Nutshell

Federal Multidistrict Litigation in a Nutshell

Author: Robert H. Klonoff

Publisher: West Academic Publishing

Published: 2019-11-28

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9781640202542

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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.


Multidistrict Litigation

Multidistrict Litigation

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery

Publisher:

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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Multidistrict Litigation

Multidistrict Litigation

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary

Publisher:

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13:

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Hearing of Oct. 20, 21, 1966 held Chicago, Illinois.


The Law of Class Actions and Other Aggregate Litigation

The Law of Class Actions and Other Aggregate Litigation

Author: Richard A. Nagareda

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781609302702

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The second edition of this casebook treats the subject of aggregate litigation as a coherent whole. The new authors have preserved the original focus while updating, revising and enriching the discussions of particular topics. The materials on class actions have been tightened and reorganized, reflecting recent judicial decisions that have made class actions harder to certify, and the materials on other procedural devices, including consolidations and arbitration, have been strengthened. The discussions contain more information about litigation strategies, judicial practices, financial considerations, and empirical findings. As before, this book fills three gaps in the market for teaching materials on the U.S. civil justice system. First, it establishes aggregate litigation as a cohesive field of procedural law, one that encompasses all devices for processing claims en masse, including class actions, multi-district litigations and other forms of consolidation, aggregate settlements, parens patriae lawsuits, bankruptcy reorganizations, and private arbitrations. Second, the casebook confronts forthrightly the reality of our civil justice system as one geared toward settlement, not the rare event of trial. From this vantage point, the casebook sees the processes for aggregate litigation as vehicles through which to achieve comprehensive, or broadly encompassing, resolution of related civil claims. Third, the casebook frames the legitimacy of preclusion in aggregate litigation by drawing, among other things, on aspects of private contract and public legislation. In so doing, the casebook encourages students to see cross-cutting connections with their other courses on such topics as contracts, corporations, and administrative law.


A Practitioner's Guide to Class Actions

A Practitioner's Guide to Class Actions

Author: Marcy Hogan Greer

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 1412

ISBN-13: 9781604429558

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Complete with a state-by-state analysis of the ways in which the class action rules differ from the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, this comprehensive guide provides practitioners with an understanding of the intricacies of a class action lawsuit. Multiple authors contributed to the book, mainly 12 top litigators at the premiere law firm of Fulbright and Jaworski, L.L.P.