(d)Related or consolidated proceedings.
Where not inconsistent with the requirements of this chapter, a State commission may, to the extent practical, consolidate proceedings under sections 214 e), 251(f), 253 of this title, and this section in order to reduce administrative burdens on telecommunications carriers, other parties to the proceedings, and the State commission in carrying out its responsibilities under this chapter.
Furthermore, to consolidate the proceedings will tend to expedite the final disposition of the action.
While there is an extremely long line of authority that discourages tenants from bringing State Supreme Court actions and using them to remove and consolidate summary proceedings from the Civil Court (5), this provision of the ordinance may be sufficient to overturn that line of thought.
The fact that the proceedings have been consolidated should cause no delay in the disposition of the application for the preliminary injunction, for the evidence will be directed in the first instance to that relief, and the preliminary injunction, if justified by the proof, may be issued in the course of the consolidated proceedings.
Thus, according to Chris Asplen (2004), forensic DNA databases allow for a "conservation of resources", either by enabling crimes to be solved more quickly, or by speeding up the judicial proceedings by consolidating the evidence or introducing plea bargaining1.
Accepting the recommendation, the MDL Panel transferred all asbestos cases then filed, but not yet on trial in federal courts to a single district, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; pursuant to the transfer order, the collected cases were consolidated for pretrial proceedings before Judge Weiner.
The Attorney General-SPB conference of January 30 , 1979 was called by the Attorney General's office following commencement by Pacific Legal Foundation PLFF) of the proceedings now consolidated with the instant cause.
The new petitioners, whose proceedings were consolidated with the one filed by North Dakota, included the coal company Murray Energy Corporation, the nonprofit group Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, and 23 states led by West Virginia (but not including Colorado, which had joined the West Virginia coalition in the challenge to the Clean Power Plan rule).
So to prevent that bureaucratic pileup, the courts chose to pause all of the various proceedings and consolidate the individual suits into one giant lawsuit known as a Multidistrict Litigation (MDL).
