Sentence examples similar to consolidating litigation from inspiring English sources

The current case against Union Bank is consolidated with litigation against some 35 banks, including JP Morgan Chase, U.S. Bank, and BB&T Corp, all before the same judge in Florida, according to the Associated Press.

Even with a private settlement, the scope of Halliburton's liability will be unclear until the end of the multidistrict litigation consolidated by a federal judge in New Orleans.

Plaintiffs' attorneys have requested that the lawsuits be consolidated into Multidistrict Litigation ("MDL").

More than 100 of those lawsuits have been consolidated in multidistrict litigation in federal court in San Francisco, while other similar lawsuits are pending in state courts in Missouri, Delaware, Arizona and elsewhere.

All the litigation was consolidated, and a trial is scheduled for January.

A family lawsuit over the suicide of the star linebacker Junior Seau was consolidated with N.F.L. concussion litigation.

But the remaining companies refused to settle and will contest the suits in a jury trial scheduled for September in United States District Court in Manhattan, where the national litigation was consolidated.

They began consolidating.

The industry is consolidating.

Hospitals are consolidating.

Though designed to increase efficiency by consolidating pretrial discovery from multiple cases into a single proceeding, some trial lawyers feel that the MDL process has become just another layer of sclerotic bureaucracy in the judiciary, one that uproots and centralizes litigation before the first case is even tried.