Forum selection; case removal

Article Abstract:

The mid- to late-1990s have featured a number of federal court cases on removal jurisdiction, including diversity jurisdiction questions, using joinder for inclusion of non-diverse parties and choosing subject-matter or personal jurisdiction. Marathon Oil Co. c. Ruhrgas A.G. is a 1998 holding that a district court lacks the discretion to resolve a challenge to personal jurisdiction before ruling on an alleged lack of subject-matter jurisdiction, even when the latter is the more legally difficult issue. The decision may change standard federal practice.

Personal jurisdiction

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Automation comes to court: in multidistrict and complex lawsuits, computers manage documents and save money

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Automation can be very useful in complex or multidistrict litigation, and all phases of the trial can benefit. Technologies which can help at both the discovery and trial stages include a document depository with all of the documents on CD-ROM and searchable with full-text-searchable software, access to document-imaging and document-coding technologies, and technologically sophisticated ways of presenting evidence such as split screen projection.

Management, Litigation support, Complex litigation

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Forum selection; multidistrict transfer

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Issues regarding the procedural aspects of multidistrict litigation are discussed. Statistics show that most multidistrict cases remanded for trial or further proceedings in the district from whichh they were transferred end up being resolved by pretrial disposition or settlement. The US Supreme Court's ruling in Lexecon, Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes and Lerach L.L.P. is discussed.

Multidistrict litigation

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