Abbott Laboratories v. Rhealyn Alexander

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• reversing an order granting a motion to remand where plaintiffs moved for consolidation “through trial” and “not solely for pretrial proceedings,” in part to “prevent inconsistent ... trial rulings”
• “a proposal for a joint trial can be implicit, particularly where ‘the assumption would be that a single trial was intended’ ”
• a joint trial may exist where “a trial on liability [is] limited to a few plaintiffs” and is followed by “a separate trial on damages”
• “[P]laintiffs said they were requesting consolidation of the cases ‘through trial’ and ‘not solely for pretrial proceedings.’”
• several hundred plaintiffs filed ten lawsuits in three different state courts, later requesting that the state supreme court consolidate and transfer their cases to a single county; plaintiffs specifically requested consolidation through trial; CAFA jurisdiction present
• several hundred plaintiffs filed ten lawsuits in three different state courts, later requesting that the state supreme court consolidate and transfer their cases to a single county; plaintiffs specifically requested consolidation through trial; CAFA jurisdiction present

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).