{"id":56,"date":"2018-08-22T14:30:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T18:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/?p=56"},"modified":"2019-04-23T14:36:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:36:12","slug":"policing-bad-claims-in-consolidated-litigation-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/2018\/08\/22\/policing-bad-claims-in-consolidated-litigation-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Policing Bad Claims In Consolidated Litigation: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the proliferation of consolidated\u00a0<a title=\"litigation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/practices\/trial.html\">litigation<\/a>\u00a0in recent years, various courts have lamented the lack of scrutiny often given to individual cases prior to filing in a class action or multidistrict litigation. Given the structure of these mass proceedings, individual claims frequently do not get meaningfully assessed. Against this backdrop, recent federal court decisions demonstrate courts\u2019 increased willingness to police meritless claims by assessing whether counsel\u2019s pre-suit investigation was adequate.<\/p>\n<p>The first part of this article examined the obligation to conduct a pre-suit investigation under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and reviewed what different courts have said in recent years about meritless claims in mass litigation.<\/p>\n<p>This part will discuss the importance of conducting plaintiff interviews, gathering basic information, avoiding language copied from dissimilar complaints and other issues.<\/p>\n<p>Given the recent pronouncements of courts on the lack of scrutiny applied to individual cases in consolidated litigation, plaintiffs counsel should pay strict attention to Rule 11\u2019s requirements prior to filing suit, particularly in a consolidated litigation, and defense counsel should be aware of the circumstances under which plaintiffs counsel\u2019s efforts fall short of Rule 11\u2019s requirements such that sanctions may be warranted. While the analysis is a factual determination that varies to some extent by jurisdiction, an examination of recent cases provides general guidance.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this article by Duane Morris attorneys <a title=\"Danielle N. Bagwell\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/daniellenbagwell.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Danielle N. Bagwell<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Anne A. Gruner\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/anneagruner.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anne A. Gruner<\/a>, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/articles\/policing_bad_claims_consolidated_litigation_part_2_0818.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Duane Morris website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the proliferation of consolidated\u00a0litigation\u00a0in recent years, various courts have lamented the lack of scrutiny often given to individual cases prior to filing in a class action or multidistrict litigation. Given the structure of these mass proceedings, individual claims frequently do not get meaningfully assessed. Against this backdrop, recent federal court decisions demonstrate courts\u2019 increased &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/2018\/08\/22\/policing-bad-claims-in-consolidated-litigation-part-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Policing Bad Claims In Consolidated Litigation: Part 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,15,13,6],"ppma_author":[110],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-anne-gruner","tag-consolidated-litigation","tag-danielle-bagwell","tag-products-liability"],"authors":[{"term_id":110,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}