Code of Virginia - Title 8.01 Civil Remedies And Procedure - Chapter 5.1 Multiple Claimant Litigation Act

• 8.01-267.1 Standards governing consolidation, etc., and transfer
  On motion of any party, a circuit court may enter an order joining, coordinating, consolidating or transferring civil actions as provided in this chapter upon ...
• 8.01-267.2 When actions pending in same court
  For purposes of this chapter, actions shall be considered pending in the same circuit court when they have been (i) filed in that court, regardless ...
• 8.01-267.3 Consolidation and other combined proceedings
  On motion of any party, a circuit court in which separate civil actions are pending which were brought by six or more plaintiffs may enter ...
• 8.01-267.4 Transfer
  A. Whenever there are pending in different circuit courts of the Commonwealth civil actions brought by six or more plaintiffs which involve common issues of ...
• 8.01-267.5 Joinder and severance
  Six or more parties may be joined initially as plaintiffs in a single action if their claims involve common issues of fact and arise out ...
• 8.01-267.6 Separate trials; special interrogatories
  In any combined action under this chapter, the court, on motion of any party, may order separate or bifurcated trials of any one or more ...
• 8.01-267.7 Later-filed actions
  Later-filed actions may be joined with ongoing litigation in accordance with the procedures of § 8.01-267.3 or § 8.01-267.4 and the standards of § 8.01-267.1. ...
• 8.01-267.8 Interlocutory appeal
  A. The Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals, in its discretion, may permit an appeal to be taken from an order of a circuit ...
• 8.01-267.9 Effect on other law
  The procedures set out in this chapter are in addition to procedures otherwise available by statute, rule or common law and do not limit in ...

Last modified: April 2, 2009