pretrial proceedings

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• pretrial conference — n: a proceeding attended by the parties to an action and a judge or magistrate and held at a party s request or on the judge s initiative for the purpose of focusing the issues, making discovery, entering into stipulations, obtaining rulings, and …   Law dictionary

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• pretrial — noun (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases • Syn: ↑pretrial conference • Topics: ↑law,… …   Useful english dictionary

• pretrial conference — noun (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases • Syn: ↑pretrial • Topics: ↑law, ↑jurisprudence… …   Useful english dictionary

• multidistrict litigation — A federal case management procedure in which a federal panel transfers several (or many) complex civil cases involving one or more common questions of fact to one federal district court (called the MDL court). The MDL court coordinates and… …   Law dictionary

• Multidistrict litigation — In the United States, multidistrict litigation (MDL) refers to a special federal legal procedure designed to speed the process of handling complex cases such as air disaster litigation or complex product liability suits. MDL cases occur when… …   Wikipedia

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