{"id":4307,"date":"2017-08-09T18:57:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T18:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=4307"},"modified":"2017-08-13T21:04:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T21:04:49","slug":"rule-42-consolidation-separate-trials","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=4307","title":{"rendered":"Rule 42 \u2013 Consolidation; Separate Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">(a)\u00a0<strong>Consolidation<\/strong>.\u00a0If actions before the court involve a common question of law or fact, the court may:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">(1) join for hearing or trial any or all matters at issue in the actions;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">(2) consolidate the actions; or<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">(3) issue any other orders to avoid unnecessary cost or delay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">(b)\u00a0<strong>Separate Trials<\/strong>.\u00a0For convenience, to avoid prejudice, or to expedite and economize, the court may order a separate trial of one or more separate issues, claims, crossclaims, counterclaims, or third-party claims. When ordering a separate trial, the court must preserve any federal right to a jury trial.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(a)\u00a0Consolidation.\u00a0If actions before the court involve a common question of law or fact, the court may: (1) join for hearing or trial any or all matters at issue in the actions; (2) consolidate the actions; or (3) issue any other orders to avoid unnecessary cost or delay. (b)\u00a0Separate Trials.\u00a0For convenience, to avoid prejudice, or to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=4307\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rule 42 \u2013 Consolidation; Separate Trials<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5000,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4307","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5006,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4307\/revisions\/5006"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}