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S 1748 106th Congress Senate

Multidistrict Jurisdiction Act of 1999

Official title: A bill to amend chapter 87 of title 28, United States Code, to authorize a judge to whom a case is transferred to retain jurisdiction over certain multidistrict litigation cases for trial.

Introduced: October 19, 1999 See on congress.gov
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Oct 19, 1999
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Oct 19, 1999
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12835)
Oct 19, 1999
Introduced in Senate
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 Latest action October 19, 1999

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Multidistrict Jurisdiction Act of 1999 - Amends the Federal judicial code to allow a civil action transferred for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings to be transferred, for trial purposes, by the judge or judges of the transferee district to whom the action was assigned to the transferee or other district in the interest of justice and for the convenience of the parties and witnesses.

Directs that any action so transferred be remanded by the panel for the determination of compensatory damages to the district court from which it was transferred unless the court to which the action was transferred for trial purposes also finds, for the convenience of the parties and witnesses and in the interests of justice, that the action should be retained for the determination of compensatory damages.

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 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 1 Republican 1
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Grassley, Chuck
Iowa · Oct 19, 1999
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Schumer, Charles E.
New York · Oct 19, 1999
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